The Antidiabetic Effect of Low Doses of Moringa oleifera Lam. Seeds on Streptozotocin Induced Diabetes and Diabetic Nephropathy in Male Rats
Table 8
Effect of treating diabetic rats with Moringa seeds powder for 4 weeks on food intake (FI) body weight gain (BWG) and food efficiency ratio (FER).
Biological evaluation parameters
Statistics
G1 −ve control
G2 +ve control
G3 50 mg Moringa
G4 100 mg Moringa
FI g/day
Mean ± SE LSD 0.05 = 0.387
16.83 ± 0.38a
16.20 ± 0.30b
15.95 ± 0.23b
15.95 ± 0.25b
-test
3.7
1.2
1.5
BWG g/4 weeks
Mean ± SE LSD 0.05 = 6.031
28.66 ± 1.58a
−41.66 ± 2.85c
17.83 ± 0.94b
13.16 ± 1.13b
-test
16.03***
−19.92***
−17.55***
BWG %
Mean ± SE LSD 0.05 = 3.157
15.49 ± 0.85a
−21.92 ± 1.50c
8.90 ± 0.47b
6.20 ± 0.53b
-test
16.0
−19.8
−17.3
FER g/day
Mean ± SE LSD 0.05 = 0.013
0.056 ± 0.003a
0.057 ± 0.029c
0.036 ± 0.001b
0.026 ± 0.002b
-test
3.8
−3.0
−2.8
FER %
Mean ± SE LSD 0.05 = 1.433
5.61 ± 0.31a
−8.66 ± 0.66c
3.66 ± 0.18b
2.66 ± 0.24b
-test
14.9
−17.6
−15.7
Data are represented as mean ± SE. -test values; < 0.001 and < 0.01. ANOVA analysis: within each row, means with different superscript (a, b, c, or d) are significantly different at < 0.05, whereas means superscripts with the same letters mean that there is no significant difference at < 0.05. LSD: least significant difference.