TABLE 3.
Results of ANOVA for independent variables: sex, oxygen availability, training, exercise and antioxidant enzyme activity.
| Independent factors | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enzymes | Sex | Oxygen availability | Training | Exercise | ||||
| (males and females) | (hypoxia or normoxia) | (initial and final training units) | (before and after) | |||||
| F(1.24) | p= | F(1.24) | p= | F(1.24) | p= | F(1.24) | p= | |
| SOD | 2.483 | 0.128 | 0.255 | 0.617 | 4.246 | 0.0503 | 0.791 | 0.382 |
| GPx | 3.897 | 0.059 | 1.123 | 0.277 | 4.974 | 0.035 | 9.459 | 0.005 |
| CAT | 17.023 | 0.001 | 4.598 | 0.042 | 1.110 | 0.302 | 8.266 | 0.009 |
| GR | 0.008 | 0.926 | 7.181 | 0.736 | 16.392 | 0.001 | 0.550 | 0.465 |
Note: Abbreviations: SOD, superoxide dismutase; GPx, glutathione peroxidase; CAT, catalase; GR, glutathione reductase.