Table 1.

Effect of Withania coagulans on weight changes of body and kidney to body weight ratio. Twenty-one-day treatment with Withania coagulans extract caused a significant improvement in the body weight and kidney to body weight ratio compared to diabetic controls.

Groups	Body weight (gms)		Kidney weight: body weight
	Before treatment	During treatment
Nondiabetic controls	368.166 ± 17.20	419.33 ± 22∗∗∗	0.0029 ± 0.00012
Diabetic controls	266.4 ± 5.61	259.2 ± 5.39∗∗∗	0.00469 ± 0.00017∗∗∗
W. coagulans treated	269.57 ± 7.09	292 ± 12.49∗∗,#	0.00408 ± 0.000084∗∗∗,#

Results are means ± SEM; n = 6 rats; ∗∗P < 0.01, ∗∗∗P < 0.001 from nondiabetic controls; ^# P 0.05 from diabetic controls.