Table 1.
The numbers and rates of death and cataract after various STZ or high-glucose injections. Various doses of STZ or high-glucose were injected into the chick embryos at E11, and the data were taken at E18.
| Group | Total (number) |
Survival (number) |
Death (number) |
Cataract (number) |
Death rate % (death/total) |
Cataract rate % (Cataract/Survival) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | 61 | 56 | 5 | 3 | 8% | 5.4% |
| STZ 300 mg/kg-egg | 46 | 37 | 9 | 32 | 19.6% | 86.4% |
| STZ 275 mg/kg-egg | 21 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 23.4% | 56.2% |
| STZ 250 mg/kg-egg | 22 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 31.8% | 30% |
| Glucose 3000 mg/kg-egg | 23 | 6 | 17 | 3 | 74% | 50% |
| Glucose 2500 mg/kg-egg | 9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 22.2% | 41.8% |