Table 3.

Activities of enzymatic antioxidants in skeletal muscle of control and experimental animals.

Parameters	CON	FRU	FRU + CAR	CON + CAR
SOD (Units (A) )	3.39 ± 0.33	2.35 ± 0.20 (a)	3.11 ± 0.13 (b)	3.33 ± 0.22
CAT (Units (B) )	44.85 ± 3.74	31.36 ± 2.19 (a)	42.15 ± 3.86 (b)	46.18 ± 3.47
GPx (Units (B) )	5.25 ± 0.27	4.21 ± 0.42 (a)	4.97 ± 0.47 (b)	5.44 ± 0.41
GST (Units (C) )	4.15 ± 0.29	3.55 ± 0.33 (a)	4.08 ± 0.18 (b)	4.22 ± 0.18

Values are means ± SD of 6 rats from each group. CON-control rats; FRU—fructose-fed rats; FRU + CAR—fructose fed rats treated with carnitine; CON + CAR—control rats treated with carnitine. ^(a)Significant as compared to CON (P < .05; ANOVA followed by DMRT). ^(b)Significant as compared to FRU (P < .05; ANOVA followed by DMRT). ^(A)amount of enzyme which gave 50% inhibition of nitro blue tetrazolium (NBT) reduction/mg protein; ^(B)mol substrate/min/mg protein; ^(C)nmoles of glutathione-1-chloro, 2,4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB) conjugate formed/min/mg protein.