Extract of Sesbania grandiflora Ameliorates Hyperglycemia in High Fat Diet-Streptozotocin Induced Experimental Diabetes Mellitus

Table 5

Pancreas-to-body weight ratio and hepatic glycogen content of different treatment groups.

Treatment group	Pancreas-to-body weight ratio (%)	Hepatic glycogen (mg/gm)
Group I; Normal control	0.27 ± 0.02	14.61 ± 0.79
Group II; Diabetic control	0.14 ± 0.04	6.03 ± 0.72
Group III; Metformin treated	0.25 ± 0.03	12.38 ± 0.73
Group IV; 200 mg/kg MESG treated	0.19 ± 0.01	9.98 ± 0.72
Group V; 400 mg/kg MESG treated	0.23 ± 0.02	11.45 ± 0.87

The results were expressed as mean ± SEM.
; diabetic control versus normal control.
, , and , metformin treated and MESG treated groups versus diabetic control group.
“#” indicates that there is no significant difference between metformin treated and MESG treated groups at .