Figure 3.

The amount of (a) food intake, (b) gain of body weight and weights of (c) perirenal and (d) epididymal adipose tissues of diabetic rats fed with G. lucidum supplement high-cholesterol diets

The rats were treated as described in Materials and methods. The amount of food intake and body weight increment were measured weekly throughout the entire animal experiment. After sacrifice, the perirenal and epididymal adipose tissues were isolated and weighted individually. Results are expressed as mean ± SEM for each group of rats (n = 8). ^#p < 0.05 compared with the normal control (NC); *p < 0.05 compared with diabetic control (DC).