Table 4 Body and organ weights, blood glucose, fasting insulin and plasma lipids for 5-wk old male Nile rats with early- or late-onset diabetes when fed a high-fat, low-fiber purified diet for 4 wks (Expt 6)

Early-onset

Late-onset

62 ± 6

61 ± 4

90 ± 6

79 ± 7*

104 ± 6

90 ± 8*

2.2 ± 0.1

1.3 ± 0.4*

14.8 ± 0.6

12.3 ± 0.9*

40.5 ± 1.7

33.8 ± 2.8*

18.5 ± 1.1

28.2 ± 7.1*

15 ± 6

9 ± 5

110 ± 55

79 ± 18

344 ± 80

46 ± 10*

3.87 ± 0.84

3.22 ± 0.42

0.73 ± 0.11

0.70 ± 0.13

2.65 ± 0.33

1.82 ± 0.76*

5.40 ± 0.57

3.80 ± 0.98*

2.61 ± 0.38

2.05 ± 0.59

1.64 ± 0.20

1.39 ± 0.42

2.18 ± 0.16

1.52 ± 0.49

14.5 ± 1.5

10.6 ± 2.8*

67.2 ± 0.9

72.8 ± 2.2*

13.4 ± 0.2

12.6 ± 0.5*

5.8 ± 0.4

5.5 ± 0.2

3.9 ± 0.2

4.0 ± 0.1

88 ± 26

63 ± 4

126 ± 14

96 ± 19*

18.2 ± 3.4

5.3 ± 3.2*

6.5 ± 0.7

5.3 ± 0.4*