Lutein Dietary Supplementation Attenuates Streptozotocin-induced testicular damage and oxidative stress in diabetic rats

Table 1 Effect of lutein on body and organ weight in of diabetic animals

Treatments	Glucose (dl/L)	Insulin (ng/ml)	Body weight (g)		Testis weight g/100 g
Treatments	Glucose (dl/L)	Insulin (ng/ml)	Initial	Final	Testis weight g/100 g
ND	130.83 ± 3.28	25.65 ± 3.51	215.33 ± 5.01	327.17 ± 13.08	0.10 ± 0.09
D	526.17 ± 27.81^*a	11.65 ± 1.21^*a	202.00 ± 4.96	190.33 ± 14.72^*a	0.50 ± 0.12^*a
D + L(40)	507.17 ± 16.11	12.56 ± 2.54	224.87 ± 6.57	198.00 ± 6.92	0.67 ± 0.15
D + L(80)	493.83 ± 23.36	13.24 ± 2.16	232.28 ± 3.69	189.5 ± 9.13	0.75 ± 0.16
D + L(160)	465.83 ± 28.17	13.68 ± 2.07	223.28 ± 6.10	179.67 ± 7.51	0.85 ± 0.07

Data were expressed as Mean ± SEM. and analyzed using one-way ANOVA followed by Student-Newman-Keuls multiple comparisons test (n = 6). Difference between groups was considered statistically significant when ^(*) P ≤ 0.05. ^(a) D group was compared with ND group

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