Table 3.

Inhibition of protein oxidation by PTS was measured in terms of nmoles of protein carbonyls/mg protein and nmoles of protein sulphydryls/mg protein in TBHP and As-Fe²⁺ mediated oxidatively damaged rat liver mitochondria

	Protein carbonyl groups (nmoles protein carbonyls/mg protein)		Protein sulphydryl groups (nmoles protein sulphydryls/mg protein)
	TBHP	As-Fe2+	TBHP	As-Fe2+
Control	3.54 ± 0.02a	3.78 ± 0.21a	0.16 ± 0.00a	1.18 ± 0.04a
Damage	5.73 ± 0.14b	5.87 ± 0.02b	0.12 ± 0.01b	0.91 ± 0.01b
0.05 mM	4.40 ± 0.14c	5.35 ± 0.26c	0.13 ± 0.01c	1.02 ± 0.03c
0.10 mM	4.02 ± 0.23d	4.73 ± 0.02d	0.14 ± 0.01c	1.04 ± 0.01c
0.15 mM	3.57 ± 0.23a	4.45 ± 0.21d	0.14 ± 0.01d	1.07 ± 0.01d
0.20 mM	3.55 ± 0.01a	3.92 ± 0.16a	0.15 ± 0.00a	1.15 ± 0.01a

Values are expressed as mean ± SE. Dissimilar alphabets in superscript indicate significant difference at p< 0.05.