Effect of Plumbago zeylanica root powder induced preimplantationary loss and abortion on uterine luminal proteins in albino rats.

P. zeylanica treatment during first 7 days of pregnancy abolished uterine proteins of 13,000, 19,000 and 26,000 and 75,000 Da molecular weights resulting in preimplantationary loss. Proteins having molecular weights 55,000 and 65,000 Da were absent in aborted rats, that were given P. zeylanica root powder since day 6 to day 17 of pregnancy. The results suggest that proteins having molecular weights 13,000, 19,000, 26,000 and 75,000 Da influence the implantation and proteins of 55,000 and 65,000 Da are required for the maintenance of the pregnancy.