Table 3.

Effect of selenium on lipid peroxidation and antioxidant enzymes in the colons of rats subjected to 20 wk of DMH treatment

Groups	Lipid peroxidation (nmoles of MDA/min/100 mg protein)	GR (mmol NADPH oxidized/min/mg protein)	GST (μmol of conjugate formed/min/mg protein)	SOD (I.U)	CAT (mmol of H2O2 decom posed/min/mg protein)	GSH (μmol GSH/g tissue)	GPx (mmol NADPH oxidized/min/mg protein)
Normal control	3.229 ± 0.38	1.375 ± 0.066	0.158 ± 0.073	6.430 ± 0.617	1.234 ± 0.200	0.629 ± 0.011	0.706 ± 0.02
DMH	2.237 ± 0.35d	1.708 ± 0.101d	0.033 ± 0.021d	4.438 ± 0.316d	0.794 ± 0.043d	1.089 ± 0.023d	0.434 ± 0.15d
Selenium	3.239 ± 0.20	1.334 ± 0.217	0.137 ± 0.027	6.287 ± 0.524	1.230 ± 0.113	0.637 ± 0.017	0.711 ± 0.015
DMH + selenium	3.032 ± 0.21f	1.546 ± 0.043ac	0.069 ± 0.022b	5.695 ± 0.417af	1.029 ± 0.278c	0.646 ± 0.027f	0.614 ± 0.17df

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01 and

^dP < 0.001 by one way-ANOVA followed by LSD test when values are compared with control group;

^cP < 0.05 and

^fP < 0.001 by one way-ANOVA followed by LSD test when values of Group IV animals are compared with Group II animals. Values are expressed as mean + SD.