Research Article

Anti-Diabetic Effects of Cucurbitacins from Ibervillea lindheimeri on Induced Mouse Diabetes

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Immunohistochemistry of Glut4 in soleus muscle and epididymal adipose tissue. (a) Immunohistochemistry of SM and EAT of nondiabetic (NDM) and diabetic (DM) CD1 mice treated with the vehicle = saline 0.9% with Tween 20 0.1%, metformin, 1, 2, and 4; scale 40x; and bar = 20 μm. (b) Diaminobenzidine (DAB) intensity as an expression of the presence of Glut4 in PM of SM. (c) DAB intensity as an expression of the presence of Glut4 in PM of EAT. The DAB intensity was calculated with the “Fiji” version of ImageJ software. , , and show significance at , , and , respectively, versus NDM + vehicle; # shows significance at versus DM + vehicle. The error bars represent the standard error mean of measurements for n = 3.
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