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

Table 9

Effect of treating diabetic rats with Moringa seeds powder for 4 weeks on organs weight and relative organs weight.

Organ weight; and relative organ weight	Statistics	G1; −ve control	G2; +ve control	G3; 50 mg; Moringa	G4; 100 mg; Moringa
Heart	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 0.184	0.583 ± 0.060^a	0.650 ± 0.071^a	0.666 ± 0.066^a	0.633 ± 0.033^a
	-test		−0.698^NS	−0.155^NS	0.191^NS
Liver	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 2.088	7.516 ± 0.245^a	8.516 ± 0.305^a	6.9167 ± 0.556^a	6.583 ± 1.288^a
	-test		−5.085^NS	4.393^NS	1.366^NS
Right kidney	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 0.129	0.633 ± 0.055^a	0.716 ± 0.016^a	0.666 ± 0.046^a	0.700 ± 0.044^a
	-test		−1.536^NS	1.168^NS	0.349^NS
Left kidney	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 0.121	0.816 ± 0.070^a	0.666 ± 0.021^a	0.633 ± 0.033^a	0.683 ± 0.060^a
	-test		2.236^NS	1.000^NS	−0.277^NS
Right testis	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 0.214	1.133 ± 0.076^a	1.316 ± 0.060^a	1.133 ± 0.061^a	1.166 ± 0.071^a
	-test		−1.437^NS	4.568^NS	2.423^NS
Left testis	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 0.192	1.166 ± 0.055^a	1.266 ± 0.033^a	1.133 ± 0.071^a	1.250 ± 0.061^a
	-test		−1.168^NS	1.865^NS	0.277^NS
Relative heart weight %	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 0.111	0.268 ± 0.028^a	0.438 ± 0.058^b	0.300 ± 0.035^b	0.276 ± 0.013^b
	-test		−2.58	2.04	2.66
Relative liver weight %	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = .985	3.511 ± 0.115^a	5.740 ± 0.196^b	3.168 ± 0.113^b	2.921 ± 0.573^b
	-test		−16.04	11.59	3.93
Relative right kidney weight %	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 0.067	0.281 ± 0.026^a	0.480 ± 0.019^b	0.301 ± 0.019^b	0.305 ± 0.020^b
	-test		−6.32	7.47	6.22
Relative left kidney weight %	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 0.056	0.346 ± 0.018^a	0.445 ± 0.016^b	0.286 ± 0.014^c	0.298 ± 0.027^bc
	-test		−4.70	8.55	5.52
Relative right testis weight %	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 0.116	0.525 ± 0.035^a	0.885 ± 0.047^b	0.515 ± 0.028^b	0.515 ± 0.035^b
	-test		−4.66	10.28	9.08
Relative left testis weight %	Mean ± SE; LSD 0.05 = 0.097	0.540 ± 0.026^a	0.850 ± 0.029^b	0.516 ± 0.031^a	0.550 ± 0.030^b
	-test		−5.90	9.27	7.72

Data are represented as mean ± SE. -test values; < 0.05, < 0.01, < 0.001. 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.