Table 2.

Antioxidant enzyme^*** activities in the liver after 15 days of treatment^† with Terminalia glaucescens leaf extract

	NC	NE100	NE300	DC	DE100	DE300
SOD (U/mg prot)	11.98 ± 0.96	12.69 ± 0.88	13.94± 1.20	6.31 ± 0.47*	7.12 ± 0.49**	10.94 ± 0.59b
CAT (nmol H2O2/min/mg prot)	280.08 ± 29.99	291.10 ± 27.42	351.03 ± 46.52	157.75 ± 9.53*	164.16 ± 6.76*	286.47 ± 16.87a
GPx (nmol NADPH/min/mg prot)	145.91 ± 11.38	151.78 ± 16.96	160.95 ± 20.20	100.66 ± 3.75*	94.87 ± 7.51*	131.11 ± 6.69c

^***Superoxide dismutase: SOD, catalase: CAT, glutathion peroxidase: GPx;

^†once daily, Normal control (NC); normal mice treated with 100 mg/kg (NE100) or 300 mg/kg (NE300) extract; diabetic control (DC); diabetic-test mice treated with 100 mg/kg (DE100) or 300 mg/kg (DE300) extract, Data are mean ± SEM (n = 8 per group). Significant difference

^*P < 0.05

^**P < 0.01 compared with NC values

^aP < 0.01

^bP < 0.05

^cP < 0.001, compared with DC values