Tracing Fasting Glucose Fluxes with Unstressed Catheter Approach in Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Rats

Table 1

Comparison of conventional catheterization and unstressed tail vein-artery catheterization in normal SD rats.

	Conventional catheterization	Unstressed tail catheterization
Trauma	Profound	Minimal
Anaesthetic	General	Local
Rest after surgery	4–6 d	15–30 min
Weight loss	Obvious	Not obvious
Blood glucose fluctuation	Elevated 10–20 mg/dL	Not obvious
10 d blockade rate	15–25%	NA
Infection rate	Up to 30%	NA

Conventional catheterization: jugular vein and carotid artery catheterization. The data of conventional catheterization were extracted from references [7, 8, 18–20]. NA: chronic data not available.