The Developmental Toxicity of Thymus schimperi Essential Oil in Rat Embryos and Fetuses

Table 6

Mean fetal growth following treatment with essential oil of Thymus schimperi in the day 20 experiment.

Groups	Fetal growth
	Litter weight/fetus (g)	CRL/fetus (cm)	Placental weight/fetus (g)
G-I (pair-fed control)	3.41 ± 0.09	3.18 ± 0.11	0.55 ± 0.05
G-II (ad libitum)	3.38 ± 0.10	3.18 ± 0.11	0.57 ± 0.06
G-III (EO 65 mg/kg)	3.34 ± 0.09	3.13 ± 0.15	0.55 ± 0.06
G-IV (EO 130 mg/kg)	3.25 ± 0.12	3.08 ± 0.13	0.55 ± 0.06
G-V (EO 260 mg/kg)	2.71 ± 0.11^b	2.91 ± 0.18^b	0.48 ± 0.05^b

Results are stated as mean ± SDM. ^bResults significantly different () from both pair-fed control and ad libitum groups.