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 ± 9.01b 2.17 ± 0.42 14.68 ± 0.31c 2.65 ± 0.41 30% CCl4 6.10 ± 2.96a 0.68 ± 0.24 9.85 ± 0.20a 0.38 ± 0.06 α-tocopherol + CCl4 22.40 ± 1.03b 1.54 ± 0.22 14.07 ± 0.49ac 2.51 ± 0.30 Extract (0.2 g/kg) + CCl4 10.84 ± 0.66 1.02 ± 0.17 10.92 ± 0.42a 1.17 ± 0.18 Extract (0.4 g/kg) + CCl4 15.97 ± 0.80 1.05 ± 0.29 11.99 ± 0.26c 1.27 ± 0.23 Extract (0.8 g/kg) + CCl4 22.85 ± 0.65b 1.33 ± 0.48 13.99 ± 0.18c 2.22 ± 0.63

Values are mean ± SEM; a versus 1% DMSO-treated group (); b versus CCl4-treated group (); c versus CCl4-treated group ().