GOT1 and diabetes mellitus: Streptozotocin, STZ (Sigma, St Louis, USA) for induction of diabetes, glibenclamide (Aventis Pharma, Mumbai, India), a standard oral hypoglycaemic drug, readymade kits/ reagents for estimation of SGOT and SGPT (Medsource Ozone Biochemicals, Faridabad, India), urea (Excel Diagnostic, Hyderabad, India) and for total protein and albumin (Span Diagnostics, Surat, India) were used.