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Published in final edited form as: J Nutr Biochem. 2009 May 15;21(6):544–549. doi: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2009.03.002

Table 3.

Antioxidant capacity and lipid peroxidation of subjects with lutein or lutein plus green tea extract¹

	Lutein (n=20)			Lutein + Green tea extract (n=20)
	day 0	day 29	day 113	day 0	day 29	day 113
TAP (Q value) ¹	2.41 ± 0.43	2.22 ± 0.65	2.51 ± 0.22	2.56 ± 0.37	2.47 ± 0.58	2.65 ± 0.20
MDA (μM) ²	0.50 ± 0.08	0.52 ± 0.11	0.52 ± 0.09	0.54 ± 0.13	0.52 ± 0.08	0.52 ± 0.10
MDA ratio³	8.16 ± 4.27	8.51 ± 3.55	6.95 ± 1.47	8.99 ± 6.01	9.11 ± 4.85	9.24 ± 4.57
8-isoprostane (nM) ⁴	1.89 ± 1.92	1.34 ± 1.32	1.42 ± 0.75	2.51 ± 2.41	2.59 ± 2.28	2.87 ± 2.70
t-HODE (μM)⁵	0.37 ± 0.09	0.37 ±0.11	0.38 ± 0.09	0.31 ± 0.09	0.36 ± 0.11	0.37 ± 0.09
ZE/EE⁶	1.46 ± 0.39	1.55 ± 0.40	1.46 ± 0.41	1.51 ± 0.29	1.59 ± 0.40	1.53± 0.50

All values are Means ± SD, No significant difference among groups (One-way repeated measures ANOVA with Tukey multiple comparison was performed. When an equal variance test failed, Friedman repeated measures analysis of variance on ranks with a Tukey multiple comparison test was used)

TAP: Total antioxidant performance

MDA: malondialdehyde

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MDA-AMVN/MDA: 2,2′-Azobis(2,4-dimethyl-valenomitrile) induced malondialdehyde/malondialdehyde

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t8iso-P: Total 8-iso-prostaglandin F_2α

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tHODE: Total hydroxyloctadecadienoic acid

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ZE/EE: The raito of stereo-isomers, 9,13-(Z/E)-HODE/9,13-(E,E)-HODE; 9,13 (Z/E)-HODE = 9-(Z/E)-HODE & 13-(Z/E)-HODE, 9, 13-(E/E)-HODE = 9-(E/E)-HODE & 13-(E/E)-HODE