Table 1. Body weight and laboratory data from control, untreated and insulin-treated STZ-induced diabetic rats at the end of the study.

	Control	Untreated STZ-induced diabetic rats	Insulin-treated STZ-induced diabetic rats
N	12	10	10
Body weight (g)	467±10	339±13§	349±4§
A1c (%)	3.3±0.1	7.8±0.1§	8.1±0.2§
Insulin (ng/ml)	2.03±0.51	0.17±0.03‡	0.34±0.05†
Adiponectin (µg/ml)	4.4±0.4	2.5±0.2‡	3.1±0.2*
Leptin (ng/ml)	7.2±1.2	0.6±0.1§	1.1±0.2§
T-chol (mg/dl)	84.3±3.4	98.5±5.0*	94.3±3.7
Free fatty acid (µEq/l)	701±38	978±54†	807±74**

Data are means ± SE. ^* p<0.05, ^† p<0.005, ^‡ p<0.0005, and ^§ p<0.0001 vs. control rats; and ^** p<0.05 vs. untreated STZ rats. T-chol: total cholesterol.