Table 3.

Superoxide dismutase and glutathione activity.

		Female NSD	Male NSD	Female SD	Male SD
SOD/U/g	VEH	31.33±1.71	29.83±1.74	34.33±1.76	33.50±1.78
	10	31.17±1.30	33.17±1.74	35.00±2.13	34.83±2.14
	20	34.83±0.79	34.50±2.15	38.67±1.65	37.00±1.57
	40	37.67±2.33	37.33±2.30*	42.17±2.01*	38.50±1.18*
	80	43.00±2.79*	39.33±1.30*	41.33±1.20*	44.33±1.94*
	120	46.67±2.17*	46.33±1.82*	43.67±2.04*	43.83±1.28*
GPX U/g	VEH	5.50±0.34	5.59±0.26	4.80±0.31	4.75±0.49
	10	4.67±0.48	4.73±0.59	4.22±0.99	4.20±0.35
	20	4.39±0.37	4.46±0.38	4.14±0.33	4.10±0.25
	40	4.27±0.21	4.28±0.42	4.08±0.39	4.00±0.57
	80	2.67±0.43*	3.07±0.44*	2.00±0.28*	2.13±0.28*
	120	1.93±0.22*	2.01±0.53*	1.81±0.19*	1.84±0.55*

Mean±S.E.M. Comparisons are: ^*p<0.05 versus VEH, VEH: Vehicle, SD: sleep-deprived, NSD: non sleep-deprived, number of animals per group-7.