Toxicity Assessment of Chinese Herbal Medicine Cynomorium songaricum Rupr

Table 4

The results show spermatocyte chromosomal aberrations in mice.

			Types of chromosomal dysgenesis
Dose	No. of cells	Fragment	Microchromosome	Translocation	Chromosomal abnormality rate (%)	Abnormal cells	Abnormal cell rate (%)
0	500	2	0	0	0.4	2	0.4
2.25	500	2	0	0	0.4	2	0.4
4.5	500	1	0	0	0.2	1	0.2
9	500	2	0	0	0.4	2	0.4
Endoxan	500	5	0	7	2.40	11	2.20

n = 5.
0: the negative control; Endoxan: the positive control; <0.05 compared with the negative control group.