Table 1.

Blood Glucose, Plasma Insulin, and Plasma-Free Fatty Acid Concentrations

	Blood glucose (nonfasting), mg/dl	Plasma insulin, ng/ml	Plasma FFA, nM/μl
Protocol 1: C57BL/6J mice	178 ± 7	1.40 ± 0.20	3.0 ± 0.2
Protocol 2: db/db mice	480 ± 23a	8.50 ± 1.50a	5.4 ± 0.4a
Protocol 3: STZ-injected C57 mice	556 ± 15a	0.18 ± 0.08a	5.2 ± 0.7a
Protocol 4: STZ + Sham surgery	558 ± 11	0.07 ± 0.03	5.4 ± 0.2
Protocol 4: STZ + Islet cell transplantation	206 ± 7b	1.33 ± 0.09b	2.7 ± 0.3b

^ap < 0.01 versus values in C57BL/6J mice.

^bp < 0.01 versus values in STZ-treated rats that received sham surgery.

FFA, free fatty acid; STZ, streptozotocin.