Table 4.

Effect of cigarette smoke and/ or AT on pulmonary antioxidant defence system in male balb/c mice over 8 weeks of treatment

Parameters	Sham	Smoked	AT	Smoked + AT
LPO	16.07 ± 0.41	29.92 ± 0.45a3	14.03 ± 0.35c2	20.89 ± 0.56b3d3
GSH	2.94 ± 0.05	2.23 ± 0.02a3	3.76 ± 0.02c1	2.37 ± 0.03b3d2
Catalase	27.38 ± 0.97	37.71 ± 1.92a2	28.29 ± 1.06	43.13 ± 6.22b1
GSH-Px	9.79 ± 0.23	21.94 ± 0.33a3	6.62 ± 0.44c1	17.77 ± 0.74b3d2
GR	6.88 ± 0.35	11.34 ± 0.63a3	9.63 ± 0.09c2	9.97 ± 0.16d1
SOD	2.45+0.08	2.62+0.23	2.61+0.60	3.01+0.16

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