TABLE 2.

Measurements of the morphological size and shape of Dg neurons.

Dg	Control	Diabetic	Piperine	Sitagliptin
Area	272.94 ± 12.06	222.75 ± 9.71**	249.15 ± 13.76	251.95 ± 12.98
Perimeter	61.63 ± 3.67	51.26 ± 1.16**	56.46 ± 1.35	59.61 ± 3.99
Cell count	43.33 ± 0.80	31.00 ± 0.67**	38.76 ± 1.05**	38.96 ± 1.19**
Somatic aspect ratio	1.03 ± 0.03	1.01 ± 0.05	1.01 ± 0.03	1.02 ± 0.02
Somatic compactness	1.08 ± 0.02	1.20 ± 0.09	1.24 ± 0.05*	1.15 ± 0.03
Somatic form factor	1.13 ± 0.14	1.11 ± 0.07	1.03 ± 0.07	2.78 ± 1.56
Somatic roundness	1.20 ± 0.06	1.68 ± 0.30	1.64 ± 0.15**	1.36 ± 0.08

Significance level *p value < 0.05, **p value < 0.01.