Figure 2.
Assessment of genetic markers of diabetes in aging Drosophila melanogaster supplemented with the probiotic and synbiotic formulation. At 0, 10, 20 and 30 days, the expression of several insulin-signaling genes, namely (a) Drosophila insulin-like peptide (dilp)2, (b) dilp3, (c) insulin receptor (InR), (d) dAkt, (e) dTOR and (f) dFOXO. Each group contained n = 5 independent groups and significance is indicated as stars (*) relative to the control day 0 group with *p < 0.05 and **p < 0.01 and as tau (τ) as relative to the no-treatment control at the same time point where τp < 0.05.