Acute and 28-Day Repeated-Dose Oral Toxicity Assessment of Abelmoschus moschatus Medik. in Healthy Wistar Rats

Figure 4

Photomicrographs of H and E-stained sections of the small intestine of the different groups of experimental rats (×400). Healthy control group (a), vehicle 1: corn oil (b), vehicle 2: PVP (c), groups of animals treated with the hexane (d), ethyl acetate (e), butanol (f), and aqueous (g) extracts of A. moschatus at the equivalent therapeutic dose are shown. Repeated oral administration of the selected plant extracts for 28 consecutive days showed no significant adverse effects on the histomorphology of tissues attributable to the treatment with plant extracts.

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