Research Article
Protective Effect of Free and Bound Polyphenol Extracts from Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) on the Hepatic Antioxidant and Some Carbohydrate Metabolizing Enzymes of Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats
Table 3
Effect of administration of polyphenols from Z. officinale on carbohydrate metabolic enzymes’ activities in the liver of normal and streptozotocin-diabetic rats.
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Values are mean ± S.E.M. of 8 rats. Test values down the vertical columns carrying different superscripts for each parameter are significantly different (P < 0.05). HK: hexokinase, PFK: phosphofructokinase, F-1,6-BP: fructose-1,6-biphosphatase, G-6-P: glucose-6-phosphatase. |