The Antidiabetic Effect of Low Doses of Moringa oleifera Lam. Seeds on Streptozotocin Induced Diabetes and Diabetic Nephropathy in Male Rats

Table 8

Effect of treating diabetic rats with Moringa seeds powder for 4 weeks on food intake (FI) body weight gain (BWG) and food efficiency ratio (FER).

Biological evaluation parameters	Statistics	G1; −ve control	G2; +ve control	G3; 50 mg; Moringa	G4; 100 mg; Moringa
FI; g/day	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 0.387	16.83 ± 0.38^a	16.20 ± 0.30^b	15.95 ± 0.23^b	15.95 ± 0.25^b
	-test		3.7	1.2	1.5
BWG; g/4 weeks	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 6.031	28.66 ± 1.58^a	−41.66 ± 2.85^c	17.83 ± 0.94^b	13.16 ± 1.13^b
	-test		16.03^***	−19.92^***	−17.55^***
BWG %	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 3.157	15.49 ± 0.85^a	−21.92 ± 1.50^c	8.90 ± 0.47^b	6.20 ± 0.53^b
	-test		16.0	−19.8	−17.3
FER; g/day	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 0.013	0.056 ± 0.003^a	0.057 ± 0.029^c	0.036 ± 0.001^b	0.026 ± 0.002^b
	-test		3.8	−3.0	−2.8
FER %	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 1.433	5.61 ± 0.31^a	−8.66 ± 0.66^c	3.66 ± 0.18^b	2.66 ± 0.24^b
	-test		14.9	−17.6	−15.7

Data are represented as mean ± SE. -test values; < 0.001 and < 0.01. ANOVA analysis: within each row, means with different superscript (a, b, c, or d) are significantly different at < 0.05, whereas means superscripts with the same letters mean that there is no significant difference at < 0.05. LSD: least significant difference.