An Experimental Approach for Selecting Appropriate Rodent Diets for Research Studies on Metabolic Disorders

Table 3

Effect of NCD-I/buffer and HFD-I/STZ treatment on serum glucose level in albino Wistar rats.

Treatment groups	Serum glucose (mg/dL)
	Induction period			Treatment period
	Day 0	Day 14	Day 21	Day 14	Day 28	Day 42
I; NCD-I/buffer	107.16±7.51	101.80±8.01	101.35±5.27	105.59±10.79	103.91±5.11	106.26±9.62
II; HFD-I/STZ	101.40±5.49	104.00±6.14	529.36±34.10^a	527.50±29.68^a	506.17±38.24^a	541.94±38.58^a

Values are expressed as mean ± SEM; 𝑛=6--9.
^a𝑃≤0.05 versus NCD-I/buffer.
NCD: normal control diet, HFD: high fat diet, STZ: streptozotocin.