Table 4.

Renal and cardiac oxidative stress in wild type group (WT; n = 8) and ob/ob group (OB; n = 8).

	WT	OB
RENAL
Protein oxidation (nmol/mg protein)	4.8 ± 0.7	6.4 ± 0.5*
Lipoperoxidation (μmoles/mg protein)	8.8 ± 1.2	11.0 ± 0.8*
SOD (USOD/mg protein)	19 ± 1	18 ± 1
CAT (nmol/mg protein)	3.5 ± 0.3	2.4 ± 0.2*
CARDIAC
Protein oxidation (nmol/mg protein)	3.2 ± 0.2	4.3 ± 0.4*
Lipoperoxidation (μmoles/mg protein)	4.3 ± 0.6	5.7 ± 0.3*
SOD (USOD/mg protein)	10 ± 1	10 ± 1
CAT (nmol/mg protein)	0.3 ± 0.02	0.3 ± 0.03

Data are reported as mean± SEM.

^*p < 0.05 vs. WT.