Table 1.

body weight (BW), water intake (WI, ml/mouse/day), feed intake (FI, g/mouse/day) in normal (N) or diabetic mice (D) treated with RA at 0, low, or high dose for 9 weeks. Values are mean ± SD, n = 8. ^a-cmeans in a row without a common letter differ statistically p < 0.05.

	N	D	D + RA, low	D + RA, high
BW	32.4 ± 0.9c	20.1 ± 1.1a	23.5 ± 0.6b	22.7 ± 0.8b
WI	2.3 ± 0.3a	6.5 ± 1.0c	5.1 ± 0.5b	4.5 ± 0.7b
FI	2.1 ± 0.5a	6.8 ± 0.8c	5.3 ± 0.6b	4.7 ± 0.4b