Figure 5. Yerba mate treatment prevented the increase of plasma thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) levels caused by early weaning but early weaning and yerba mate treatment did not change plasma protein bound carbonyl. A, TBARS content and B, total protein bound carbonyl in the plasma at postnatal day 180 of adult rats that were normally breastfed for 21 days (C), early-weaned (EW), or EW that received yerba mate for 30 days (EW+YM). Data are reported as means±SE of 10 rats per group. *P<0.05 vs C; #P<0.05 vs EW (ANOVA and Newman-Keuls multiple comparison test).
