TABLE 3.

Peroxidase activity in Wistar rats LG. The comparison included eight-week-old males and females (n = 7/group). The assay was conducted with a colorimetric assay (Amplex Red; Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR, United States) and read at a spectrophotometer (SpectroMax M2, Molecular Devices, Sunnyvale, CA, United States) after 30 min. Comparisons were performed by Student’s t test for the two groups and ANOVA for the three groups. The p value was significant when <0.05.

	Peroxidase activity mU/ml	p value for male versus female	Peroxidase activity/LG weight mU/ml.mg	p value for male versus female
Male	395.6 ± 90.5	0.88	4.3 ± 0.9	0.96
Female	380.6 ± 71.5		4.3 ± 0.8