TABLE 2:

Morphometric analyses of pancreatic islets.

Islet variable	ERdj4+/+	ERdj4GT/GT
Number of β cells	125.76 ± 4.93	99.71 ± 4.19†
Number of α cells	35.86 ± 1.62	71.96 ± 4.06‡
Ratio of β to α cells	4.77 ± 0.34	1.61 ± 0.07‡
Area of α cells (%)	17.87 ± 0.74	35.38 ± 1.12‡
Total islet area (μm2)	39,868.67 ± 1647.14	43,613.46 ± 1890.15

Eight- to 12-wk-old mice.

^†p ≤ 0.01.

^‡p ≤ 0.001.