Table 5.
Treatments | Lipid damage (nmol of TBARS/mg of protein) | Protein damage (nmol of DNPH/mg of protein) | ||||||
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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.