Figure 6. Functional food supplementation reduced aldose reductase and inflammation in streptozotocin induced diabetes. A: Representative immunoblots depicting expression of AR, NFĸB, pNFĸB, TNF-α, and MCP-1 in rat retina. B: Quantitative analysis of AR normalized with GAPDH. C-E: Quantitative analysis of NFκB, MCP-1, and TNF-α normalized with β-actin. Data are presented as mean ± SD, n = 4 per group. Significant differences between control (C) and diabetes (D, D+FF1, D+FF2) groups are indicated by *p ≤ 0.05. Significant differences between untreated diabetes (D) and treated diabetes (D+FF1, D+FF2) groups are indicated by #p ≤ 0.05. AR, aldose reductase; C, control; D, diabetes (untreated); D+FF1, diabetes treated with FF1; D+FF2, diabetes treated with FF2 group; MCP-1, monocyte chemoattractant protein 1; NFκB, nuclear factor κB; TNF-α, tumor necrosis factor α.