Hepatic transcriptome implications for palm fruit juice deterrence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in young male Nile rats

Table 3 Diabetes assessment parameters of 3-week-old male NRs fed either a high-carbohydrate diet only or a high-carbohydrate diet supplemented with PFJ for 4 weeks

Group	Control		PFJ
	(n = 8)		(n = 8)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Body weight (g)
Initial (3 weeks old)	37	7	35	8
After 4 weeks	77^a	8	70^a	10
Food intake
g/d	8^a	1	7^a	1
kJ/d	134^a	25	117^a	13
kcal/d	32^a	6	28^a	3
Food efficiency (g body weight gained/1000 kJ)	10.7	1.3	11.1	0.9
Fluid intake (ml/d)	18	7	21	7
Random blood glucose (RBG) (mg/dl)
After four weeks	241^a	133	128^a	121
Fasting blood glucose (FBG) (mg/dl)
After four weeks	77	38	70	22
Terminal organ weight (% body weight)
Liver	3.6	0.6	3.6	0.5
Kidneys	0.8	0.2	0.9	0.2
Caecum	1.4^a	0.4	1.9^a	0.6
Adipose
Epididymal	2.9^a	0.5	2.4^a	0.8
Perirenal	1.4^a	0.4	1.1^a	0.4
Brown fat	1.7^a	0.2	1.5^a	0.3
Total fat	6.0^a	0.8	5.1^a	1.1
Carcass	73	2	75	5
Body length (cm)	12.9^a	0.4	12.4^a	0.7
Plasma lipids (mmol/l)
Total cholesterol (TC)	3.9	1.3	4.7	2.8
Triacylglycerol (TG)	2.8^a	1.3	1.9^a	0.5
Insulin (pmol/l)	0.6	0.3	0.6	0.4

Values sharing a common superscript are significantly different from each other (p < 0.05) by two-tailed unpaired Student’s t test

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