Green Tea Extract Ameliorates Learning and Memory Deficits in Ischemic Rats via Its Active Component Polyphenol Epigallocatechin-3-gallate by Modulation of Oxidative Stress and Neuroinflammation

Table 2

Effect of GTex (p.o.) and EGCG (p.o.) on MDA levels in cortex and hippocampus of ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) rats.

	MDA levels (nmole/mg Protein)
	Cortex	Hippocampus
Sham	0.73 ± 0.04	0.31 ± 0.03
I/R	1.60 ± 0.19^***	1.03 ± 0.07^***
GTex (30 mg/kg)	1.23 ± 0.19	0.89 ± 0.09
GTex (100 mg/kg)	1.16 ± 0.13	0.54 ± 0.06^##
GTex (300 mg/kg)	0.65 ± 0.08^###	0.30 ± 0.03^###
EGCG (10 mg/kg)	0.96 ± 0.09^##	0.56 ± 0.11^#
PTX (100 mg/kg)	1.24 ± 0.06	1.02 ± 0.06

^∗∗∗𝑃<0.001 compared to the sham group, ^#𝑃<0.05, ^##𝑃<0.01, ^###𝑃<0.001 compared to I/R group (𝑁=6).