Table 1.

Effect of CS and Flu (positive control) on the MDA (nmol/mgp), GSH (μmol/mgp), SOD (U/mgp), GPx (U/mgp), GR (U/mgp), and CAT (U/mgp) levels in brain of immobilization stress and control groups (n = 8, for each group)

Brain	MDA	GSH	SOD	GPx	GR	CAT
Veh-NS	4.02 ± 0.74	6.13 ± 0.69	1.32 ± 0.09	0.69 ± 0.07	0.51 ± 0.05	3.42 ± 0.96
Veh-S	8.97 ± 0.88***	2.87 ± 0.71**	0.61 ± 0.11**	0.35 ± 0.10**	0.26 ± 0.02*	1.08 ± 0.21*
CS1-NS	4.12 ± 0.31++	5.89 ± 0.31+	1.01 ± 0.13	0.59 ± 0.10	0.50 ± 0.06+	3.00 ± 0.34
CS5-NS	3.89 ± 0.49+++	6.23 ± 0.29++	1.13 ± 0.10	0.63 ± 0.11+	0.48 ± 0.08+	3.12 ± 0.41+
CS10-NS	4.06 ± 0.97+++	6.04 ± 0.97++	1.28 ± 0.07++	0.71 ± 0.06++	0.53 ± 0.04++	3.47 ± 0.38++
CS1-S	7.88 ± 0.65*++	3.07 ± 0.55*	0.73 ± 0.15*	0.41 ± 0.05	0.32 ± 0.01	1.26 ± 0.25
CS5-S	6.43 ± 0.75***+++	4.12 ± 0.19	0.96 ± 0.20	0.52 ± 0.02	0.39 ± 0.03	1.77 ± 0.30
CS10-S	5.06 ± 1.08+++	5.67 ± 0.61+	1.17 ± 0.09+	0.61 ± 0.07	0.45 ± 0.07	3.10 ± 0.14+
Flu-S	4.66 ± 0.62+++	5.88 ± 0.73+	1.28 ± 0.19+	0.66 ± 0.10	0.49 ± 0.09	3.31 ± 0.39+

Each measurement was done at least in triplicate and the values are the means ± SEM for eight rats in each group

Significantly different from the Veh-NS groups (*; P < 0. 05, **; P < 0. 01, ***; P < 0.001)

Significantly different from the Veh-S groups (+; P < 0.05, ++; P < 0.05, +++; P < 0.001)