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. 2020 Mar 24;10(3):539. doi: 10.3390/ani10030539

Table 4.

Effects of curcumin on antioxidant capacity of leg muscles in IUGR growing pigs.

Item 1 NBW IUGR IUGR + Cur p
MDA(nmol/mgprot) 3.08 ± 0.26 b 4.65 ± 0.32 a 3.42 ± 0.19 b <0.01
PC (nmol/mgprot) 3.19 ± 0.16 b 3.85 ± 0.17 a 3.43 ± 0.15 ab 0.03
GSH(mg/gprot) 0.87 ± 0.07 0.94 ± 0.04 1.03 ± 0.11 0.41
GPX (U/mgprot) 16.65 ± 1.67 a 13.65 ± 0.53 b 15.50 ± 0.82 ab 0.02
CAT(U/mgprot) 18.12 ± 1.06 a 14.18 ± 0.32 b 18.21 ± 0.97 a <0.01
T-AOC(U/mgprot) 0.28 ± 0.01 0.28 ± 0.01 0.29 ± 0.01 0.94
SOD(U/mgprot) 17.38 ± 0.34 ab 16.69 ± 0.23 b 17.83 ± 0.28 a 0.04
TSH(mmol/gprot) 0.13 ± 0.01 0.12 ± 0.01 0.12 ± 0.01 0.41
POD(U/mgprot) 0.27 ± 0.02 a 0.19 ± 0.02 b 0.29 ± 0.03 a 0.02

1 MDA, malondialdehyde; PC, protein carbonyls; GPX, glutathione peroxidase; CAT, catalase; T-AOC, total antioxidant capacity; SOD, superoxide dismutase; POD, peroxidase; GSH, glutathione and TSH, thyrotrophin. a,b Means that values within a row with different superscript letters were significantly different (p < 0.05).