Acetone Extract from Rhodomyrtus tomentosa: A Potent Natural Antioxidant

Table 2

Antioxidant status in the liver of mice in each group.

Treatment groups	Level of nonenzymic antioxidant (Total glutathione, μM/mg tissue)	Level of antioxidant enzymes (U/mg tissue)
		Superoxide dismutase	Catalase	Glutathione peroxidase
1% DMSO	25.29 ± 9.01^b	2.17 ± 0.42	14.68 ± 0.31^c	2.65 ± 0.41
30% CCl4	6.10 ± 2.96^a	0.68 ± 0.24	9.85 ± 0.20^a	0.38 ± 0.06
α-tocopherol + CCl4	22.40 ± 1.03^b	1.54 ± 0.22	14.07 ± 0.49^ac	2.51 ± 0.30
Extract (0.2 g/kg) + CCl4	10.84 ± 0.66	1.02 ± 0.17	10.92 ± 0.42^a	1.17 ± 0.18
Extract (0.4 g/kg) + CCl4	15.97 ± 0.80	1.05 ± 0.29	11.99 ± 0.26^c	1.27 ± 0.23
Extract (0.8 g/kg) + CCl4	22.85 ± 0.65^b	1.33 ± 0.48	13.99 ± 0.18^c	2.22 ± 0.63

Values are mean ± SEM; ^a𝑃<0.01 versus 1% DMSO-treated group (𝑛=6); ^b𝑃<0.01 versus CCl₄-treated group (𝑛=6); ^c𝑃<0.05 versus CCl₄-treated group (𝑛=6).