Table 2.

Effect of cigarette smoke and/ or AT on pulmonary antioxidant defence system in male balb/c mice over 4 weeks of treatment

Parameters	Sham	Smoked	AT	Smoked + AT
LPO	16.53 ± 0.81	23.99 ± 0.45a3	13.96 ± 0.70c1	18.47 ± 0.56b2d3
GSH	3.11 ± 0.02	2.80 ± 0.02a3	3.27 ± 0.03c1	2.68 ± 0.04b3d2
Catalase	29.78 ± 1.65	39.01 ± 1.64a1	34.51 ± 1.29c1	39.18 ± 3.02b1
GSH-Px	10.50 ± 0.27	15.05 ± 1.04a2	7.46 ± 0.52c2	11.13 ± 0.28b3d2
GR	7.06 ± 0.11	10.96 ± 0.18a3	9.82 ± 0.19c3	12.36 ± 0.18b3d2
SOD	2.84 ± 0.24	2.86 ± 0.24	2.95 ± 0.13	2.97 ± 0.14

Values are in mean ± SD, n = 6–8 ^*Same as in Table 1