Antiperoxidative Activity of Tetracarpidium conophorum Leaf Extract in Reproductive Organs of Male Rats

Table 2

Total protein (TPC), reduced glutathione (GSH), and vitamin C contents in the reproductive organs of male rats treated with the T. conophorum leaf extract.

Variables	Control	50 mg/kg extract	500 mg/kg extract	1000 mg/kg extract	1.04 mg/kg drug
Testis
TPC^a	6.66 ± 2.89	10.00 ± 1.25	10.00 ± 1.25	15.83 ± 3.15	15.00 ± 0.00
GSH^b	24.94 ± 0.09	59.25 ± 0.29	39.31 ± 0.51	25.02 ± 0.00	38.78 ± 0.59
Vitamin C^c	2.19 ± 0.09	2.25 ± 0.99	3.08 ± 0.14	3.26 ± 0.03	3.10 ± 0.81
Epididymis
TPC^a	117.71 ± 10.00	118.64 ± 18.00	120.08 ± 10.00	135 ± 19.00	121.24 ± 25.00
GSH^b	11.48 ± 0.02	13.33 ± 0.01	14.68 ± 0.03	15.77 ± 1.00	14.77 ± 0.04
Vitamin C^c	2.45 ± 0.01	2.49 ± 0.07	2.52 ± 0.12	2.67 ± 0.10	2.71 ± 0.09
Seminal vesicle
TPC^a	54.17 ± 5.90	57.25 ± 8.00^#	58.33 ± 3.14	71.83 ± 12.64	63.42 ± 2.03
GSH^b	6.44 ± 0.08	6.72 ± 0.00	7.10 ± 0.06	9.92 ± 0.01	11.14 ± 0.04
Vitamin C^c	1.58 ± 0.06	1.59 ± 0.04	1.68 ± 0.05	1.70 ± 0.03	1.73 ± 0.02
Prostate gland
TPC^a	61.25 ± 1.25	67.50 ± 2.16	75.67 ± 7.21	81.67 ± 4.73	70.33 ± 4.64
GSH^b	10.35 ± 0.06	11.97 ± 0.01	14.51 ± 0.09	20.44 ± 0.13	16.17 ± 0.20
Vitamin C^c	1.49 ± 0.61	1.51 ± 0.59	1.53 ± 0.74	1.55 ± 0.62	1.57 ± 0.58

^amg/mL, ^bµmole of GSH/mg protein, and ^cmmol/mg protein. Data are expressed as mean ± SD, . significant (), significant (), significant (), and highly significant () compared with the control group, ^#significant () compared with the standard drug.