Table 3.

Effect of GII (50 mg/kg bw) treatment for 15 days on blood glucose and glucose induced serum insulin levels during GTT in the subdiabetic, moderately diabetic and severely diabetic rabbits

		Fasting	1 h	2 h
1	Subdiabetic
	Serum insulin μl/ml
	Day 0	11.6 ± 1.4	19.8 ± 2	10.9 ± 2.1
	Day 15	15.4 ± 1.6	29.8 ± 1.1	28.4 ± 5.6
	Blood glucose mg%
	Day 0	90 ± 5.6	220 ± 19	188 ± 12.3
	Day 15	86 ± 8.2	140 ± 16.7	108 ± 14.2
2	Moderately diabetic
	Serum insulin μl/ml
	Day 0	3.04 ± 0.5	4.02 ± 0.5	3.8 ± 0.4
	Day 15	8.9 ± 1.6	19.3 ± 2	16.3 ± 2
	Blood glucose mg%
	Day 0	150 ± 11.7	246 ± 19.4	198 ± 14.3
	Day 15	89 ± 9.8	140 ± 11.6	110 ± 10.2
3	Severely diabetic
	Serum insulin μl/ml
	Day 0	0.10 ± 0.03	GTT not done
	Day 30	0.115 = 0.03 (+15%)
	Blood glucose mg%
	FBG	427 ± 46.1
	Day1	110 ± 11.1
	Day 30	(−74%)
4	Normalserum insulin blood glucose	11.6 ± 1.6 90 ± 5.9	30.4 ± 2 148 ± 10.1	28.2 ± 2 122 ± 8.3