At the end of the experiment, the rats were sacrificed with an overdose of isoflurane after anesthesia. Blood glucose was measured from the tail vein using a glucometer (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN, USA). Blood was taken from the heart and centrifuged for 10 min at 4 °C to extract serum; an ELISA kit was used to detect serum insulin.
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