Research Article
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 ± 0.28a | 13.3 ± 0.43a | 6.5 ± 0.12a | 111.6 ± 5.77 a | 77.4 ± 0.40a | 21.3 ± 0.28a | Diabetic control (Group II) | 221.6 ± 2.28b | 6.8 ± 0.05b | 11.2 ± 0.01b | 228.3 ± 2.88b | 188.5 ± 0.46b | 15.2 ± 0.21b | Diabetes + glibenclamide (Group III) | 111.6 ± 0.57c | 13.3 ± 0.04a | 5.4 ± 0.04c | 115.6 ± 1.15a | 101.6 ± 2.88c | 23.0 ± 0.04c | Diabetes + P. ligularis extract (Group IV) | 116.1 ± 0.28d | 12.7 ± 0.12c | 6.3 ± 0.05d | 131.6 ± 2.88c | 88.8 ± 0.11d | 25.1 ± 0.28d | P. ligularis extract treated alone (Group V) | 95.1 ± 0.28a | 13.4 ± 0.01a | 6.6 ± 0.02a | 101.6 ± 2.88d | 78.8 ± 0.28a | 21.3 ± 0.28a |
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Values are expressed as mean ± SD for four animals in each group. Values not sharing common superscript letters (a–d) differ significantly at (DMRT).
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