Antioxidant and Antidiabetic Effect of Aqueous Fruit Extract of Passiflora ligularis Juss. on Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Rats

Table 2

Effect of P.ligularis on glucose, hemoglobin, glycosylated hemoglobin, and lipid profile in serum of control and experimental rats.

Parameters	Glucose (mg/dL)	Hemoglobin (mg/dL)	Glycosylated hemoglobin (%)	Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	Triglycerides (mg/dL)	HDL (mg/dL)
Control; (Group I)	96.1 ± 0.28^a	13.3 ± 0.43^a	6.5 ± 0.12^a	111.6 ± 5.77^a	77.4 ± 0.40^a	21.3 ± 0.28^a
Diabetic control; (Group II)	221.6 ± 2.28^b	6.8 ± 0.05^b	11.2 ± 0.01^b	228.3 ± 2.88^b	188.5 ± 0.46^b	15.2 ± 0.21^b
Diabetes + glibenclamide; (Group III)	111.6 ± 0.57^c	13.3 ± 0.04^a	5.4 ± 0.04^c	115.6 ± 1.15^a	101.6 ± 2.88^c	23.0 ± 0.04^c
Diabetes + P. ligularis extract; (Group IV)	116.1 ± 0.28^d	12.7 ± 0.12^c	6.3 ± 0.05^d	131.6 ± 2.88^c	88.8 ± 0.11^d	25.1 ± 0.28^d
P. ligularis extract treated alone; (Group V)	95.1 ± 0.28^a	13.4 ± 0.01^a	6.6 ± 0.02^a	101.6 ± 2.88^d	78.8 ± 0.28^a	21.3 ± 0.28^a

Values are expressed as mean ± SD for four animals in each group.
Values not sharing common superscript letters (a–d) differ significantly at (DMRT).