Table 8.

Effect of latex and ethanolic leaf extract and abamectin on testicular GSH content, LPO and GPx, GST and SOD activities in normal rats

Treatments	Parameter
	GSH (nmol/100 mg tissue)		LPO (nmol/100 mg tissue)		GPx (U/g tissue)		GST (U/g tissue)		SOD (U/g tissue)
	4 weeks	8 weeks	4 weeks	8 weeks	4 weeks	8 weeks	4 weeks	8 weeks	4 week	8 weeks
Vehicle (CMC 1 %) control	86.78 ± 9.11a	69.60 ± 6.12b	13.68 ± 1.72e	14.46 ± 2.40e	71.89 ± 3.25a	73.20 ± 6.68a	976.18 ± 23.75a	1011.18 ± 27.05a	10.24 ± 1.77a	9.33 ± 0.97ab
1/20 LD50 latex	68.97 ± 3.94b	33.41 ± 5.68e	16.30 ± 0.56de	23.33 ± 1.97bc	50.85 ± 6.52cd	44.53 ± 3.42cde	683.16 ± 37.74bcd	787.50 ± 52.34b	6.45 ± 0.38cde	5.12 ± 0.44defg
1/10 LD50 latex	54.24 ± 1.85cd	28.32 ± 3.02ef	29.76 ± 1.98a	30.06 ± 3.02a	48.50 ± 4.38cde	46.99 ± 4.29cde	637.50 ± 42.81cde	769.38 ± 29.28b	5.53 ± 0.54def	4.40 ± 0.24efg
1/20 LD50 ethanolic extract	64.06 ± 2.18bc	19.03 ± 0.55fg	25.37 ± 2.67abc	21.35 ± 1.73cd	55.13 ± 3.69bc	49.06 ± 1.37cd	753.96 ± 33.91bc	673.09 ± 76.22bcd	7.93 ± 0.98bc	6.36 ± 0.56cde
1/10 LD50 ethanolic extract	48.05 ± 1.77d	14.87 ± 0.59g	28.10 ± 2.42ab	22.56 ± 1.65bc	49.44 ± 2.15cd	37.27 ± 3.28e	489.58 ± 6.99f	584.21 ± 47.88def	7.13 ± 0.46cd	3.07 ± 0.76g
1/20 LD50 ABM	53.45 ± 4.58cd	31.06 ± 3.74e	21.72 ± 1.61cd	21.80 ± 1.50cd	64.25 ± 3.05ab	51.47 ± 2.67cd	672.29 ± 21.79bcd	596.88 ± 66.45def	6.99 ± 0.80cd	4.05 ± 0.37fg
1/10 LD50 ABM	48.87 ± 3.79d	18.42 ± 0.96fg	23.33 ± 0.87bc	27.92 ± 1.99ab	52.10 ± 3.18cd	41.90 ± 3.22de	569.17 ± 29.95def	546.87 ± 51.57ef	5.06 ± 0.48defg	3.59 ± 0.40fg
F-probability	P < 0.001		P < 0.001		P < 0.001		P < 0.001		P < 0.001
LSD at 5 % level	11.946		5.6821		11.3121		124.2059		2.1784
LSD at 1 % level	16.0879		7.6522		15.2342		167.2704		2.9337

Data are expressed as mean ± SE

Number of animals in each group is six

For each parameter, means, which do not share the same superscript symbol(s), are significantly different at P < 0.05