Table 1.

Effects of eucalyptus administered in the diet (62.5 g/kg) and drinking water (2.5 g/L) on body weight, water intake, food intake and serum glucose concentrations of normal and diabetic rats.

	Normal control	Control + C. albicans	Control + eucalyptus + C. albicans	Diabetic control	Diabetic + C. albicans	Diabetic + eucalyptus + C. albicans	between Groups sig.
Study Day 30	91.1 ± 2.7	87.3 ± 1.4	88.9 ± 1.7	281.4±5.5 a	273.2 ± 5.2	229.2 ± 4.1 a	0.047
Body weight (g)
Study Day 0	211.5 ± 4.9	206.1 ± 5.2	208.3 ± 3.8	207.4 ± 3.5	208.8 ± 3.0	210.3 ± 5.8	0.225
Study Day 15	288.7 ± 2.4	274.9 ± 5.9	278.6 ± 6.4	215.1 ± 3.8	210.1 ± 4.2	240.3 ± 6.6	0.009
Study Day 30	335.0 ± 4.1	319.0 ± 7.0	320.1±5.8	220.4±4.1 a	215.8±3.7	270.6 ± 6.9 c	0.045
Water intake (ml/day)
Study Day 0	35.7 ± 5.1	34.0 ± 3.3	33.5 ± 3.1	34.2 ± 2.3	33.5 ± 2.5	34.0 ± 1.3	0.216
Study Day 15	45.5 ± 1.8	45.4 ± 0.9	44.7 ± 1.1	88.2 ± 7.9	91.0 ± 8.3	65.0 ± 11.2	0.048
Study Day 30	51.2 ± 2.0	47.3 ± 1.7	47.5 ± 1.9	98.5 ± 3.7 b	102.2 ± 4.6	70.2 ± 5.3d	0.009
Food intake (g/day)
Study Day 0	12.9 ± 1.1	12.4 ± 0.9	12.5 ± 1.0	12.4 ± 0.8	12.2 ± 0.9	12.6 ± 0.7	0.285
Study Day 15	19.2 ± 1.8	15.7 ± 0.8	18.8 ± 0.6	38.3 ± 1.9	36.9 ± 1.8	42.2 ± 2.3	0.009
Study Day 30	23.1 ± 0.7	21.8 ± 1.0	23.1 ± 0.6	44.6 ± 1.1 b	43.2 ± 1.0	35.5 ± 2.4d	0.008
Serum glucose (mg/dl)
Study Day 0	90.6 ± 2.3	90.3 ± 1.7	90.9 ± 1.9	90.2 ± 1.6	90.7 ± 1.1	90.5 ± 1.8	0.142
Study Day 15	90.0 ± 2.2	88.7 ± 1.1	89.9 ± 1.6	228.2 ± 3.6	224.2 ± 4.1	180.3 ± 2.8	0.032

The values present the mean ± SEM for ten rats in each group. Comparisons were made by one-way ANOVA test. ^aP<0.05 compared to normal control rats, ^bP<0.01 compared to normal control rats, ^cP<0.05 compared to diabetic control rats and ^dP<0.01 compared to diabetic control rats.