ossification {glmtoolbox}

Teratogenic effects of phenytoin and trichloropropene oxide

Description

The data come from a 2x2 factorial design with 81 pregnant mice. In the experiment each pregnant mouse was randomly allocated to a control group and three treated groups. These groups received daily, by gastric gavage, 60 mg/kg of phenytoin, 100 mg/kg of trichloropropene oxide, or 60 mg/kg of phenytoin and 100 mg/kg of trichloropropene oxide. On day 18 of gestation, the fetuses were recovered, stained, and cleared. Then, by visual inspection, the presence or absence of ossification was determined for the different joints of the right and left forepaws. The experiment investigated the synergy of phenytoin and trichloropropene oxide to produce ossification at the phalanges, teratogenic effects.

Usage

data(ossification)

Format

A data frame with 81 rows and 4 variables:

fetuses

a numeric vector giving the number of fetuses showing ossification on the left middle third phalanx.

litter

a numeric vector giving the litter size.

pht

a factor giving the dose (mg/kg) of phenytoin: "0 mg/kg" or "60 mg/kg".

tcpo

a factor giving the dose (mg/kg) of trichloropropene oxide: "0 mg/kg" or "100 mg/kg".

References

Morel J.G., Neerchal N.K. (1997) Clustered binary logistic regression in teratology data using a finite mixture distribution. Statistics in Medicine 16:2843-2853.

Morel J.G., Nagaraj N.K. (2012) Overdispersion Models in SAS. SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina, USA.

Examples

data(ossification)
dev.new()
boxplot(100*fetuses/litter ~ pht, data=subset(ossification,tcpo=="0 mg/kg"),
        at=c(1:2) - 0.2, col="yellow", boxwex=0.25, xaxt="n",
        xlab="Dose of PHT", ylab="% of fetuses showing ossification")
boxplot(100*fetuses/litter ~ pht, data=subset(ossification,tcpo=="100 mg/kg"),
        add=TRUE, at=c(1:2) + 0.2, col="blue", boxwex=0.25, xaxt="n")
axis(1, at=c(1:2), labels=levels(ossification$pht))
legend("bottomleft", legend=c("0 mg/kg","100 mg/kg"), fill=c("yellow","blue"),
       title="Dose of TCPO", bty="n", cex=0.9)