Fig 1. Sex-dependent changes in body weight (A), blood glucose levels (B), and plasma insulin levels (C) in healthy control and STZ-induced diabetic rats.

Statistical significance between male and female rats was calculated by One-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post hoc tests, where p-value is *p<0.05 and **p<0.01, and significance between controls and diabetics is represented by ^† p<0.05 and ^†† p<0.01.