Table 1.

Lipid and protein oxidative damage.

	Conjugated dienes A233 nm/A215 nm	Protein-LPO (arbitrary units)
17 h inhalation of
Air	0.266 ± 0.004	84.6 ± 1.3
O2mol	0.249 ± 0.014	79.4 ± 1.3
O2neg	0.315 ± 0.002**###	102.0 ± 2.1*###
O2posit	0.215 ± 0.011**#	87.4 ± 3.1
60 h inhalation of
air	0.277 ± 0.001	79.8 ± 4
O2mol	0.265 ± 0.009	87.6 ± 5.6
O2neg	0.310 ± 0.009*##	101.8 ± 3.2*#
O2posit	0.236 ± 0.011	74.4 ± 2.1

Values are given as means ± SE of 5 experiments. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01 -

significantly different compared with the air treated group; #p < 0.05, ##p < 0.01,

###p < 0.001- significantly different compared with the O₂ treated group.