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Group                   Blood plasma thiamine (nM) Red blood cells thiamine (nmol/μg protein) Control 298.6 ± 60.1 0.98 ± 0.07 Streptozotocin diabetes   94.1 ± 4.51* 0.49 ± 0.05* Thiamine-treated streptozotocin diabetes   409.1 ± 17.3 # 0.97 ± 0.05 # Thiamine-treated                 267.8 ± 25.9 0.85 ± 0.02

Table1 : Blood plasma and red blood cells thiamine levels in each experimental group. Each value represents the mean ± S.E. of five experiments. * p<0.01, compared with the control. # p<0.01, compared with “Streptozotocin diabetes”. Modified from Kohda et al. [23].