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. 2012 Dec;17(4):293–298. doi: 10.3746/pnf.2012.17.4.293

Table 2.

Antioxidant related activities of tea polysaccharides

Teas1) DWSP2) CDSP3) SCSP4) HC5)
Electron NFT 43.47±1.65aB6) 36.51±2.14bB 30.82±2.25cB 43.89±2.87aA
donating ability (%) FTM 49.86±2.08bA 57.53±3.00aA 48.58±3.01bA 9.94±2.40cB
Iron chelating NFT 12.36±2.66bB 86.80±4.71aA 9.11±2.85NS 3.44±1.04cB
activity (%) FTM 21.10±1.95bA 28.90±2.45aB 9.85±1.74 24.72±2.38aA
SOD-like activity NFT 0.69±0.03aB 0.22±0.02NS7) 0.39±0.03bB 0.00±0.00NS
(U) FTM 0.88±0.07aA 0.23±0.02 0.71±0.04bA 0.00±0.00
XO inhibitory NFT 12.09±2.97bA 2.46±1.88cA 49.18±2.32aA 0.00±0.00dB
activity (%) FTM 0.00±0.00bB 0.00±0.00bB 0.00±0.00bB 19.06±3.12aA
AO inhibitory NFT 10.41±1.98bB 0.00±0.00cB 7.51±2.58bB 99.42±4.09aA
activity (%) FTM 33.53±2.23aA 19.65±1.45cA 28.90±1.82bA 0.00±0.00dB
1)

NFT and FTM: See Fig. 1.

2–5)

DWSP, CDSP, SCSP and HC: See Fig. 4.

6)

Values are mean±SD of triplicate determinations, and different superscripts within a rows (a-d), and a column (A,B) indicates significant differences at p<0.05.

7)

Not significant.