Litsea cubeba fruit attenuates diabetes-associated metabolic complications in mice

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 1 Effect of MELCF on OGTT in mice

Treatments	Blood glucose concentration (mg/dl)
Treatments	0 min	30 min	60 min	120 min
Group 1: Normal control	120 ± 4.041	225 ± 2.87	160 ± 3.46	135 ± 2.6
Group 2: MELCF 100 mg/kg	107 ± 4.485	180 ± 4.61*	140 ± 2.32	120 ± 2.30
Group 3: MELCF 200 mg/kg	108 ± 5.77	165 ± 2.88*	135 ± 3.18	110 ± 2.88
Group 4: MELCF 300 mg/kg	121 ± 3.33	140 ± 17.56*	118 ± 11.67*	104 ± 8.45*
Group 5: Metformin 200 mg/kg	111.7 ± 8.81	128 ± 6.09 *	108 ± 4.41*	83 ± 8.5 *

The values represented as mean ± SEM (n = 6). *p < 0.05 when compared with normal control