Animal feeds were purchased from Beijing Keaoxieli Animal Feed Company. Glucose (Glu) test kit (batch no.: 120521), triglyceride (TG) test kit (batch no.: 120631), and total cholesterol (CHO) test kit (batch no.: 120961) were purchased from Zhongsheng Beikong Biotech Co., Ltd. (Beijing, China). Alloxan (batch no.: 39H1482) was purchased from Sigma. Glucose (batch no.: 040302) was purchased from Beijing chemical reagents company (China). Rat serum insulin assay kit (batch no.: 20120701A) was purchased from R&D (MN, USA).
Roche complete mini protease inhibitor cocktail tablet (catalog no: 11836153001) was purchased from Roche (Indianapolis, USA). Phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (catalog no: 36978) was purchased from Thermo fisher. Leupeptin (catalog no: 04906837001) is from Roche. Pierce BCA protein assay kit (catalog no. 23227, Thermo Scientific). Mouse anti-GAPDH monoclonal antibodies and goat anti-rabbit or mouse immunoglobulin G (IgG) conjugated with horseradish peroxidase were purchased from Beijing Tiandeyue Biotech Co., Ltd. (China).