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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 3.
Published in final edited form as: Biochem J. 2010 Mar 29;427(2):265–274. doi: 10.1042/BJ20091589

Table 2.

Direct effect of hydrogen peroxide on desaturase activity in vitro.

Rat liver microsomes nmol/min/g
Control 0.43±0.04
250μM H2O2 0.4±0.052
1mM H2O2 0.37±0.032
5mM H2O2 0.31±0.019
Rat liver microsomes nmol/min/g
Control 0.588±0.045
500nM C8CPPC 0.37±0.044**
750nM C8CPPC 0.243±0.025***
1μM C8CPPC 0.201±0.023***
Cell Lysate pmol/min/g
Control 161.23±40.03
5mM H2O2 118.06±31.45

Values are mean ±S.D. of two separate experiments done in triplicate.

*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01,

***

p<0.001.