Table 1.

Effect of PPG on HbA1C, body weight, kidney weight, albumin loss, and total protein loss in diabetic rats.

	db/m	db/db
	(n = 6)	0 MTE (n = 6)	50 mg/kg MTE (n = 6)	100 mg/kg MTE (n = 6)
HbA1C	4.12 ± 0.16	10.38 ± 0.79 *	9 ± 3.64 *	9.12 ± 0.89 *
Kidney weight	0.30 ± 0.03	0.42 ± 0.03 *	0.36 ± 0.15 *,#	0.38 ± 0.03 *,#
Body weight	32.56 ± 1.70	49.34 ± 4.66 *	50.65 ± 7.02 *	48.44 ± 4.42 *
Kidney weight/body weight	0.93 ± 0.10	0.86 ± 0.09	0.72 ± 0.30	0.80 ± 0.11
Albumin loss	0.0097 ± 0.0033	0.3685 ± 0.2393 *	0.1436 ± 0.2514 *,#	0.1981 ± 0.1227 *,#

*: p < 0.05 compared to the db/m group. #: p < 0.05 compared to the db/db without MTE treatment group.