Table 4.

Comparison between liver and kidney content of oxidative stress parameters in the control.

Variables	Organs		p-value
	Kidney	Liver
Malondialdehyde (nmol/g tissue)	79.39±8.92	64.03±6.65*	0.007
Protein carbonyl formation (µmol/mg prot)	4.76±0.40	4.26±0.55	0.101
Advanced oxidation protein products (nmol/mg prot)	0.29±0.05	0.05±0.00*	0.0001
Catalase (µmol H2 O2/mg prot)	8.06±0.56	8.17±1.16	0.853
Glutathione peroxidase (nmol GSH/min/mg prot)	26.25±3.72	2.48±0.15*	0.001
GSH (µg/g tissue)	7.80±0.19	7.10±1.59	0.283
Ascorbic acid (µg/g tissue)	164.83±8.23	165.22±7.41	0.769

^*p<0.05 compared to the kidney content of oxidative stress parameters in the control. GSH=Reduced glutathione