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. 2013 Sep 26;2(4):194–205. doi: 10.3390/antiox2040194

Table 5.

Lipid and protein damage in rat cerebellum, cerebral cortex, hippocampus and liver cells treated with L. alba.

Treatments Lipid damage (nmol of TBARS/mg of protein) Protein damage (nmol of DNPH/mg of protein)
Cerebellum Cerebral Cortex Hippocampus Liver Cerebellum Cerebral Cortex Hippocampus Liver
Control 12.85 ± 0.90 b 7.17 ± 0.41 c 26.80 ± 1.67 c 14.14 ± 1.26 c 0.76 ± 0.01 c 0.58 ± 0.01 c 0.11 ± 0.01 b 0.26 ± 0.02 b
H2O2 24.05 ± 1.46 a 43.73 ± 3.75 a 76.32 ± 5.36 a 36.75 ± 0.89 a 2.06 ± 0.03 a 1.63 ± 0.03 a 0.18 ± 0.01 a 0.64 ± 0.02 a
L. alba 11.46 ± 0.99 b,c 8.12 ± 0.57 b,c 25.48 ± 1.92 c 13.67 ± 0.73 c 0.21 ± 0.02 d 0.50 ± 0.03 d 0.08 ± 0.01 c 0.24 ± 0.01 b
L. alba + H2O2 9.90 ± 0.89 c 10.73 ± 0.27 b 38.87 ± 0.98 b 27.57 ± 1.18 b 0.92 ± 0.03 b 1.36 ± 0.01 b 0.10 ± 0.01 b,c 0.29 ± 0.01 b

Tissues were incubated for 30 min in the presence of the Lippia alba extract (10 μg/mL) followed by 1 h in the presence of H2O2. Different letters correspond to values significantly different using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey’s post hoc test for p ≤ 0.05 for each tissue evaluated.