Table 7.
Intestinal antioxidant enzyme activities of the GIFT fed with different diets.
| Eucommia ulmoides leaf extract (%) | CAT (U/mgprot) |
SOD (U/mgprot) |
MDA (nmol/mL) |
GSH (umol/gprot) |
GSH-Px (U/mgprot) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1.60 ± 0.11 a | 0.34 ± 0.04 a | 0.97 ± 0.09 | 56.88 ± 2.59 | 2.37 ± 0.32 a |
| 0.02 | 1.68 ± 0.09 ab | 0.37 ± 0.04 ab | 0.84 ± 0.07 | 59.90 ± 3.16 | 2.82 ± 0.41 ab |
| 0.04 | 2.03 ± 0.08 c | 0.41 ± 0.04 ab | 0.91 ± 0.06 | 69.59 ± 5.71 | 3.71 ± 0.39 bc |
| 0.06 | 1.94 ± 0.10 bc | 0.48 ± 0.03 b | 0.88 ± 0.08 | 67.59 ± 4.17 | 4.26 ± 0.58 c |
| 0.08 | 1.77 ± 0.12 abc | 0.38 ± 0.04 ab | 0.92 ± 0.10 | 58.95 ± 5.87 | 3.68 ± 0.42 bc |
| p-value | |||||
| Linear trend | 0.066 | 0.142 | 0.886 | 0.411 | 0.005 |
| Quadratic trend | 0.018 | 0.047 | 0.441 | 0.044 | 0.147 |
Data are expressed as means with SEM. Means with the same letters or absence of letters indicate not significantly different between treatments (p > 0.05). Values with different superscripts (a, b, c) are significantly different (p < 0.05).