Research Article

Effect of Early and Late Interventions with Dietary Oils on Vascular and Neural Complications in a Type 2 Diabetic Rat Model

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Effect of dietary oils on cornea nerve fiber length in high-fat-fed diabetic Sprague-Dawley rats. Innervation of the subepithelial layer of the cornea was determined after early (open bars) and late (hatched bars) interventions by using corneal confocal microscopy as described in Materials and Methods. Data are presented as the for innervation of the cornea in mm/mm2. The number of rats in each group was the same as shown in Tables 1 and 2, for the early and late intervention periods, respectively. Cornea nerve fiber lengths for control and diabetic rats at the beginning of the early intervention treatment were and , respectively. compared to control rats; compared to diabetic rats. OO: olive oil; SO: safflower oil; EPO: evening primrose oil; FO: flaxseed oil; MO: menhaden oil.