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

Table 6

Effect of aqueous fruit extract of Passiflora ligularis on the nonenzymatic antioxidant in the liver, kidney, and pancreas of control and experimental rats.

Particulars	Vitamin E (µg/mg protein)			Vitamin C (µg/mg protein)			Reduced glutathione (µg/mg protein)
	Liver	Kidney	Pancreas	Liver	Kidney	Pancreas	Liver	Kidney	Pancreas
Control; (Group I)	1.56 ± 0.05^a	3.3 ± 0.33^a	3.24 ± 0.16^a	0.34 ± 0.02^a	0.33 ± 0.014^a	0.26 ± 0.025^a	17.4 ± 0.4^a	11.89 ± 0.46^a	11.14 ± 0.52^a
Diabetic control; (Group II)	0.84 ± 0.08^b	2.26 ± 0.25^b	1.23 ± 0.16^b	0.27 ± 0.02^b	0.25 ± 0.013^b	0.21 ± 0.02^b	6.76 ± 0.93^b	4.13 ± 0.69^b	5.94 ± 0.46^b
Diabetic + glibenclamide; (Group III)	1.42 ± 0.19^ca	3.47 ± 0.11^a	2.58 ± 0.23^c	0.30 ± 0.01^b	0.28 ± 0.01^c	0.25 ± 0.01^a	11.08 ± 0.46^c	7.11 ± 0.32^c	7.13 ± 0.28^c
Diabetic + Passiflora ligularis; (Group IV)	1.3 ± 0.5^ca	3.38 ± 0.19^a	3.37 ± 0.37^a	0.32 ± 0.01^a	0.32 ± 0.025^a	0.26 ± 0.026^a	13.11 ± 0.61^d	8.92 ± 0.81^d	8.76 ± 0.58^d
Passiflora ligularis alone treated; (Group V)	1.4 ± 0.4^ca	3.15 ± 0.47^a	3.37 ± 0.22^a	0.33 ± 0.02^a	0.34 ± 0.03^a	0.27 ± 0.014^a	17.52 ± 0.42^a	11.62 ± 0.46^a	10.87 ± 0.42^a

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