In the liver of T2D animals, increased activity of SCD1 was observed, as indicated by an increase in the C16:1/C16:0 ratio from 0.07 (control) to 0.13 (T2D) and in the C18:1/C18:0 ratio from 0.86 to 2.8. This evidence concerns the gene SCD and type 2 diabetes mellitus.