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. 2014 Jun 6;1:319–329. doi: 10.1016/j.toxrep.2014.05.014

Table 2.

Effect of oral treatment with quercetin on hepatic GPX, SOD and MDA of rats fed AFs-contaminated diet for 3 weeks.

Parameters Groups
Control AFs QL QH AFs + QL AFs + QH
GPX (U/mg protein) 23.64 ± 0.72a 8.07 ± 1.55b 31.83 ± 0.51c 45.23 ± 1.03d 19.24 ± 1.50e 22.80 ± 2.48a
SOD (U/mg protein) 2.87 ± 0.13a 1.53 ± 0.11b 2.76 ± 0.16a 3.24 ± 0.17c 2.93 ± 0.12a 3.01 ± 0.17c
MDA (mol/mg protein) 11.53 ± 1.43a 28.27 ± 0.38b 11.73 ± 1.81a 11.86 ± 1.28a 14.23 ± 1.51c 13.52 ± 1.41c

Data are expressed as mean ± SE; n = 8.

Within each row, means superscripts with different letters are significantly different at P < 0.05 compared to the control group (a), AFs-treated group (b) and quercetin-treated groups (c and d).