Figure 8.

Effect of cactus seed oil, olive oil, or colza oil treatment on the peroxisomal enzymes activities of brain and liver GPx (A,C) and CAT (B,D), respectively, and on liver ACOX1 (E). C57BL/6 mice received for 28 days a standard diet (control (CTRL)), a diet enriched with 6% (w/w) CSO, OO, or CO, and intravenous injection of LPS (100 μg) four hours antemortem. Brain and liver homogenates were prepared as described in Material and methods section. Results are expressed in (UI.mg⁻¹ = one μmol of substrate transformed/minute/mg of proteins). All values are means ± SD (n = 6), statistical significance of higher mean signal strength (*** p ≤ 0.001. ** p ≤ 0.01. * p ≤ 0.05) compared to control, (### p ≤ 0.01) compared to LPS, and ($$$ p ≤ 0.001 and $$ p ≤ 0.01, $ p ≤ 0.05) compared to the different treatments with or without LPS administration. Statistics were executed using two-way ANOVA followed by Tukey test for multiple comparisons.