Fig. 3

The 8th week and final glucose homeostasis parameters in the five study groups. MS untreated metabolic syndrome group, MSRD metabolic syndrome group reverted to regular rat chow, MSF metabolic syndrome group on alternate day fasting, MSRDF metabolic syndrome group reverted to regular rat chow and on alternate day fasting, IPGTT intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test, PG peak glycemia, AUC area under the curve. Data are expressed as mean ± SEM. * Significance from 8th week value, by Student’s “t” test for paired data, at P ≤ 0.05