Lavender (Lavandula stoechas L.) essential oils attenuate hyperglycemia and protect against oxidative stress in alloxan-induced diabetic rats

Table 2 Subacute effect of Lavandula stoechas essential oils on acute aloxan-induced changes body weight as well as liver and kidney relative weights

	Healthy control	Diabetic control	Healthy + essential oils	Diabetic + essential oils
Initial body weight (g)	227 ± 2.8	228 ± 2.3	230 ± 2.6	227 ± 2.9
Final body weight (g)	241 ± 2.7	227 ± 2.4^a	244 ± 2.4^b	231 ± 3.1^b
Liver relative weight (mg/g b.w.)	33.42 ± 3.91	62. 13 ± 2.81^a	36.83 ± 3.45^b	39.51 ± 2.27^b
Kidney relative weight (mg/g b.w.)	8.7 ± 0.2	11.13 ± 0.71^a	8.36 ± 0.94^b	7.89 ± 0.49^b

Animals were treated during 15 days with Lavandula stoechas essential oils (50 mg/kg b.w., i.p.) or vehicle (NaCl 0.9%) seven days after diabetic induction with alloxan at 220 mg/kg b.w.. Assays were carried out in triplicate.
^ap < 0.05 compared to “Healthy Control” group and ^bp < 0.05 compared to “Diabetic Control” group.

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