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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 7.
Published in final edited form as: Metabolism. 2011 Jan 19;60(8):1070–1080. doi: 10.1016/j.metabol.2010.11.003

Table 3.

Antioxidant enzyme levels in aortas from control and STZ-DM monkeysa

Control STZ-DM
EcSOD 2.84 ± 0.31 2.52 ± 0.15
MnSOD 4.09 ± 0.85 4.49 ± 0.90
Cu/ZnSOD 0.41 ± 0.05 0.38 ± 0.05
Catalase 0.065 ± 0.011 0.067 ± 0.010
Heme Oxygenase-1 0.028 ± 0.002 0.030 ± 0.004
a

Aortic tissue was frozen in liquid nitrogen, and protein fractions containing the SODs, catalase, and heme oxygenase-1 were isolated and subject to gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting as outlined in Methods. Membranes were developed using an ECL-plus detection reagent and quantified by expressing their respective densities as arbitrary units normalized to that of β-actin bands as outlined in Methods. Values are means ± SEM (n = 10 animals per group).