Table 1.

Changes in blood glucose level and body weight at the initial and the 5th week of experiment (Huang et al., 2005)

Groups	Body weight (g)		Blood glucose (mmol/L)
	Initial	At the 5th week	Initial	At the 5th week
Normal control	209±11	363±56c	4.75±0.54c	4.94±0.48c
Control+carvedilol (1 mg/kg)	210±15	342±50	4.92±0.50	4.62±0.50
Control+carvedilol (10 mg/kg)	209±13	378±66	4.64±0.49	5.47±0.49
Untreated diabetic rat	224±13	167±12b	20.20±1.58b	20.59±2.62b
Diabetic rat+carvedilol (1 mg/kg)	214±17	247±66b,c	20.27±1.66b	19.47±1.93b
Diabetic rat+carvedilol (10 mg/kg)	208±10	255±60b,c	20.05±1.75b	20.20±1.97b

^b P<0.01 vs control group

^c P<0.05 vs untreated diabetic group