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. 2015 Dec 15;15:435. doi: 10.1186/s12906-015-0959-y

Table 2.

Effect of different concentrations (8, 16 and 32 mg TP/100 g BW) of crude extracts of Acacia farnesiana (AF) and Acacia shaffneri (AS) pods on DPPH scavenging capacity (%) and oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) (μM Trolox equivalents/L) of gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus) plasma

Vegetal extract AF AS Basal * C- ** C+
8 16 32 8 16 32
DPPH 21.8d ± 2.4 20.0e ± 1.7 30.0a ± 2.0 22.2d ± 3.4 26.2c ± 2.1 29.0b ± 1.7 14.9f ± 2.4 14.7f ± 2.4 26.1c ± 1.6
ORAC 1339d ± 246 1309d ± 102 1561c ± 156 2390a ± 569 2245a ± 550 2207a ± 441 1090e ± 88 1213d ± 166 1888b ± 223

BW body weight; DPPH 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radical

*C- = negative control (acidified water)

** C+ = Positive control (ascorbic acid, 0.5 mg/100 g BW)

a,b,c,d,e,f Means with different letters within the same row are significantly different at P < 0.05