Figure 2.

(a) Blood glucose levels in untreated (heavy line), control implant–treated (dotted line), and insulin implant–treated (light line) diabetic rats. The insulin implants normalized diabetic blood glucose levels (day 7), from 348.16 ± 11.04 in the untreated diabetic group and 363 ± 8.24 in the diabetic control implant–treated group, to 81.28 ± 29 in the insulin implant–treated group. (b) Weight measurements in untreated diabetic animals, and diabetic animals receiving either control or insulin implants. Acute insulin treatment increases the weight of the diabetic animals by 15.8% (261.25 ± 6.9 mg vs. 227 ± 6.5 mg, n = 8, P < 0.001).