Animal Model of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus with Pathophysiological Resemblance to the Human Condition Induced by Multiple Factors (Nutritional, Pharmacological, and Stress) in Rats

Table 1

Data shown below is the reproductive performances of control group and GDM group. Data shown as mean SD of four rats. For each parameter, a value with the asterisk signifies and the absence of asterisk indicates otherwise. value less than 0.05 was designated with one () asterisk, value less than 0.01 was designated with two () asterisks, value less than 0.001 was designated with three ( asterisks, value less than 0.0001 was designated with four () asterisks, and value less than 0.00001 was designated with five () asterisks.

Group	Control	GDM
Live fetus	8.57 0.23	5.23 0.12
Number of dead fetuses	0.32 0.18	0.22 0.13
Gravid wt.	67.23 1.30	65 1.73
Empty uterus weight	6.23 0.12	4.32 0.02
Placental wt.	4.02 0.13	4.82 0.04
Fetal wt.	3.08 0.11	3.42 0.11
Fetal length	2.89 0.11	4.85 0.11
Number of corpora lutea	11 0.32	11.23 0.21
Number of implantations	10 0.23	6.56 0.8
Pre IMP loss%	4.20 1.32	7.51 0.8
Post IMP loss%	1.22 0.83	3.16 1.12
Sex ratio (M/F)	1 0.05	0.7 0.02