Abstract
AbstractThe present study was designed to examine the effect of potassium iodide for its efficacy to inducemorphological malformations and histopathological lesions of kidney of adult male mic€, pregnant mice andpups of Mus musculus .The results of the present study showed statistically a non-significant effect of kidney weight in the rapeutic,hyper & hypo dose groups compared with control group, while statistically showed significant (p:!0.01) deoeasein kidney weight of hyper, hypo dose groups in pregnant mice.The histological examination showed manylesions in the kidney of adult male mice, pregnant mice and pups . The results showed as infiltration oflymphocytes, degeneration, necrosis, atrophy and hemonhage