Table I.

Blood glucose, muscle and fat composition of control and diabetic, vehicle and PTH treated mice at 40 days.

	Vehicle		8 μg/kg PTH		40 μg/kg PTH
	C (n = 19)	D (n = 17)	C (n = 13)	D (n = 12)	C (n = 14)	D (n = 15)
Non-fasting glucose (mg/dl)	173 ± 8	491 ± 27*	151 ± 9@	531 ± 14*	164 ± 13	534 ± 19*
Body mass (g)	27.9 ± 0.4	25.5 ± 0.5*	28.6 ± 0.4	25.6 ± 0.6*	29.0 ± 0.5	26.3 ± 0.5*
Tibialis anterior (mg)	50 ± 1	42 ± 3*	52 ± 1	43 ± 1*	52 ± 1	43 ± 1*
Femoral fat pad (mg)	133 ± 5	78 ± 7*	112 ± 8^	76 ± 6*	114 ± 9@	75 ± 6*
Perirenal fat pad (mg)	37 ± 3	16 ± 2*	31 ± 3@	16 ± 2*	32 ± 4	14 ± 2*
Marrow adipocyte #/mm2 §	7 ± 1	20 ± 3*	12 ± 2^	23 ± 7*	9 ± 3	17 ± 3*

Abbreviations: C, control; D, diabetic; PTH, parathyroid hormone, no., number.

Significance:

^*p < 0.05 compared treatment-matched control.

^{^}p < 0.05 compared to vehicle treated control.

^@p < 0.1 compared to vehicle treated control, by t-test.

^§n = 4–12 per group.