Research Article

Effect of Early and Late Interventions with Dietary Oils on Vascular and Neural Complications in a Type 2 Diabetic Rat Model

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Effect of dietary oils on intraepidermal nerve fiber density in high-fat-fed diabetic Sprague-Dawley rats. Intraepidermal nerve fiber density was examined after early (open bars) and late (hatched bars) interventions as described in Materials and Methods. Data are presented as the in profiles per mm. The number of rats in each group was the same as shown in Tables 1 and 2, for the early and late intervention periods, respectively. Intraepidermal nerve fiber densities for control and diabetic rats at the beginning of the early intervention treatment were and , respectively. compared to control rats; compared to diabetic rats. OO: olive oil; SO: safflower oil; EPO: evening primrose oil; FO: flaxseed oil; MO: menhaden oil.