Assessment of the Protective Role of Prenatal Zinc versus Insulin Supplementation on Fetal Cardiac Damage Induced by Maternal Diabetes in Rat Using Caspase-3 and KI67 Immunohistochemical Stains

Table 1

Mean ± SD of maternal and fetal random blood glucose levels in the different groups.

Parameter	Group				ANOVA
	C	STZ-DM	STZ-DM + Zn	STZ-DM + In		value
Maternal random blood glucose (mg/dL)	108.33 ± 11.25	360.00 ± 63.48	180.00 ± 38.34	115.83 ± 32.00	49.5	<0.00001
Fetal random blood glucose (mg/dL)	96. 67 ± 7.53	334. 67 ± 63.19	123.17 ± 40.31	91.67 ± 17.52	54.2	<0.00001

C: control group, STZ-DM: streptozotocin-induced diabetic group, STZ-DM + In: streptozotocin-induced diabetic treated with insulin group, and STZ-DM + Zn: streptozotocin-induced diabetic treated with Zn group.
, compared to the control group, compared to the STZ-DM group, and compared to the STZ-DM + Zn group.