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.
| Particulars | Protein (mg/g) | Liver | Kidney | Pancreas |
| Control (Group I) | 1.42 ± 0.07a | 1.06 ± 0.03a | 0.93 ± 0.03a | Diabetic control (Group II) | 0.87 ± 0.01b | 0.57 ± 0.06b | 0.50 ± 0.12b | Diabetic + glibenclamide (Group III) | 1.26 ± 0.04c | 0.88 ± 0.06c | 0.80 ± 0.09c | Diabetic + Passiflora ligularis Group IV | 1.34 ± 0.025cd | 1.01 ± 0.06ad | 0.91 ± 0.03a | Passiflora ligularis alone treated (Group V) | 1.48 ± 0.16ad | 1.08 ± 0.06a | 1.07 ± 0.17d |
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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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