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. 2022 Oct 13;54(6):344. doi: 10.1007/s11250-022-03344-y

Table 3.

Seminal plasma lipid peroxide products as malondialdehyde (MDA), nitric oxide (NO), ascorbic acid (AA), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), superoxide dismutase (SOD), zinc(Zn), copper (CU), total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoproteins (LDL), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and alkaline phosphatase (ALP). Data are presented as mean ± standard error of mean (SEM)

Variables 0.0 mg/ml 0.48 mg/ml 0.56 mg/ml 0.64 mg/ml P value
MDA μmol/ml 6.67b ± 1.03 4.31a ± 0.17 5.01a ± 0.30 4.96a ± 0.21 0.03
NO μmol/L 50.00b ± 2.78 47.36b ± .39 48.29b ± 0.55 43.01a ± 0.65 0.012
AA g/L 824.37a ± 14.97 891.61b ± 11.39 846.79a ± 21.45 869.06ab ± 8.81 0.017
GPx mU/ml 82.14ab ± 11.21 47.55a ± 2.44 97.27bc ± 13.07 138.34c ± 27.15 0.003
SOD U/ml 2625a ± 244 4750b ± 297 7125c ± 423 4250b ± 192 0.0001
Zn μg/dl 94.41a ± 0.31 277.85b ± 0.98 285.71b ± 1.70 296.48c ± 5.21 0.0001
Cu μg/dl 540.25a ± 52.5 934.95b ± 146.01 440.47a ± 72.7 605.79a ± 99.88 0.006
TC mg/dl 160.67b ± 10.02 117.87a ± 5.06 127.07a ± 2.91 113.20a ± 2.14 0.0001
LDL mg/dl 117.29b ± 9.35 94.99a ± 6.33 93.35a ± 4.25 84.56a ± 2.44 0.004
LDH U/L 4857a ± 104 5686b ± 81 6990c ± 443 5918b ± 75 0.0001
ALP IU/L 137.98ab ± 0.79 136.06a ± 0.57 137.76ab ± 4.01 149.75b ± 7.78 NS

Means with different superscripts (a, b, c, d) are significantly different at P < 0.05, non-significant (NS) (n = 16)