Research Article

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

Table 4

Changes on protein levels in liver, kidney, and pancreas of control and experimental animals.

ParticularsProtein (mg/g)
LiverKidneyPancreas

Control 
(Group I)
1.42 ± 0.07a1.06 ± 0.03a0.93 ± 0.03a
Diabetic control 
(Group II)
0.87 ± 0.01b0.57 ± 0.06b0.50 ± 0.12b
Diabetic + glibenclamide 
(Group III)
1.26 ± 0.04c0.88 ± 0.06c0.80 ± 0.09c
Diabetic + Passiflora ligularis
Group IV
1.34 ± 0.025cd1.01 ± 0.06ad0.91 ± 0.03a
Passiflora ligularis alone treated 
(Group V)
1.48 ± 0.16ad1.08 ± 0.06a1.07 ± 0.17d

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