Table 6.
Changes in blood glucose of STZ-induced diabetic rats fed the exper imental diets

Experimental groups1) N STZ STZ-M STZ-G STZ-MG
Weeks 0 111.00±2.902)b3) 368.50±9.09a 370.69±5.57a 373.88±2.14a 374.75±3.74a
1 132.38±8.77b 374.00±2.57a 361.78±11.95a 360.75±2.55a 345.25±6.89a
2 153.25±4.82c 383.63±3.74a 356.74±8.96b 346.00±3.41b 340.00±6.99b
3 132.13±1.09c 403.50±9.68a 323.08±1.91b 339.63±3.95b 329.75±5.04b
4 129.38±2.04c 418.50±2.86a 321.00±8.99b 329.88±4.63b 313.63±6.76b
N, normal rat+basal control diet; STZ, DM rats++basal control diet; STZ-M, DM rats+feed diet containg 5% mulberry leaf powder; STZ-G, DM rats+feed diet containg 5% green tea powder; STZ-MG, DM rats+feed diet containg 5% mixture of mulberry leaf and green tea powder. and green tea powder
The results are mean±SE of 8 rats per each group.
Values with different superscripts in the same column are significantly different (p<0.05) between groups by Tukey's test.