Table 4.

Effect of 30 days treatment with GII (50 mg/kg bw/day) on the liver and heart lipids (mg/g tissue) in the severely diabetic rabbits

	Normal	Untreated (mg/g)	Treated (mg/g)	Change after treatment (%)
Liver total lipids	28.2 ± 4	62.1 ± 6	33.1 ± 4	−47
TC	2.7 ± 0.4	4.1 ± 0.4	2.8 ± 0.2	−32
TG	2.1 ± 0.3	6.6 ± 0.5	2.0 ± 0.2	−70
Heart total lipids	23.1 ± 2.4	24.7 ± 3	25.6 ± 0.3	+4
TC	1.8 ± 0.31	1.97 ± 0.2	2.07 ± 0.2	+5
TG	4.8 ± 0.2	4.3 ± 0.4	4.1 ± 0.3	−4