Table 3.
Effects of cocoa procyanidin pentamer, decamer and regular cocoa extract 427 on Vmax and Km values of PLA2.*
| Pentamer (μM) | Decamer (μM) | Regular Cocoa Extract (μg/mL) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 5 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 50 | |
| Vmax | 74.66a | 69.97a | 25.53b | 85.14a | 69.53b | 32.37c | 53.14a | 53.36a | 50.91a |
| Km | 1.981a | 2.691a | 1.71a | 2.637a | 3.283a | 3.793a | 3.361a | 4.685a | 11.55b |
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| Inhibition Type | Non-competitive | Non-competitive | Competitive | ||||||
*
For each inhibitor, values in the same row not sharing a common superscript are significantly different (P<0.05).