Research Article
Antioxidant and Antidiabetic Effect of Aqueous Fruit Extract of Passiflora ligularis Juss. on Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Rats
Table 3
Effect of P. ligularis on kidney and liver markers, total protein, albumin, and globulin in serum of control and experimental rats.
| Parameters | Urea (mg/dL) | Creatinine (mg/dL) | Bilirubin (mg/dL) | SGOT (IU/L) | SGPT (IU/L) | Total protein (mg/dL) | Albumin (mg/dL) | Globulin (mg/dL) |
| Control (Group I) | 27.9 ± 0.01a | 0.5 ± 0.06a | 1.10 ± 0.01a | 33.3 ± 0.28a | 27.4 ± 0.40a | 8.2 ± 0.23a | 5.5 ± 0.11a | 2.4 ± 0.67a | Diabetic control (Group II) | 30.4 ± 0.46b | 0.7 ± 0.04b | 1.33 ± 0.02b | 56.1 ± 0.98b | 59.0 ± 0.80b | 4.6 ± 0.02b | 3.3 ± 0.02b | 0.6 ± 0.01b | Diabetes + glibenclamide (Group III) | 25.4 ± 0.34c | 0.5 ± 0.01a | 1.18 ± 0.01c | 38.4 ± 0.40c | 33.3 ± 0.23c | 7.7 ± 0.03c | 4.8 ± 0.26c | 2.9 ± 0.05c | Diabetes + P. ligularis extract (Group IV) | 23.2 ± 0.35d | 0.4 ± 0.01c | 1.15 ± 0.01d | 43.3 ± 0.28d | 41.0 ± 0.86d | 7.2 ± 0.08d | 4.7 ± 0.19c | 2.3 ± 0.06a | P. ligularis extract treated alone (Group V) | 27.6 ± 0.34a | 0.6 ± 0.01d | 1.09 ± 0.01a | 35.1 ± 0.28e | 29.3 ± 0.28e | 8.6 ± 0.05e | 5.4 ± 0.10a | 3.1 ± 0.01d |
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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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