Antioxidant and Antidiabetic Effect of Aqueous Fruit Extract of Passiflora ligularis Juss. on Streptozotocin Induced Diabetic Rats

Table 5

Activity of aqueous fruit extract of Passiflora ligularis on the antioxidant enzymes in the liver, kidney, and pancreas of control and experimental rats.

Particulars	Superoxide dismutase; (enzyme required for 50% inhibition of NBT reduction/min/mg protein)			Catalase; (µmoles of H2O2utilized/min/mg/protein)			Glutathione peroxidase; (µmoles of GSH utilized/min/mg/protein)
	Liver	Kidney	Pancreas	Liver	Kidney	Pancreas	Liver	Kidney	Pancreas
Control; (Group I)	6.71 ± 0.01^a	2.13 ± 0.03^a	1.13 ± 0.01^a	2.04 ± 0.10^a	2.04 ± 0.10^a	2.2 ± 0.13^a	1.04 ± 0.25^a	1.36 ± 0.3^a	1.77 ± 0.06^a
Diabetic control; (Group II)	3.93 ± 0.02^b	0.94 ± 0.03^b	0.63 ± 0.01^b	0.8 ± 0.05^b	0.8 ± 0.05^b	0.93 ± 0.13^b	0.52 ± 0.17^b	0.72 ± 0.2^b	1.15 ± 0.08^b
Diabetic+ glibenclamide; (Group III)	6.4 ± 0.2^c	1.93 ± 0.02^c	0.93 ± 0.02^c	1.1 ± 0.31^c	1.18 ± 0.31^c	1.27 ± 0.51^c	0.93 ± 0.18^c	0.78 ± 0.09^b	1.45 ± 0.2^c
Diabetic + Passiflora ligularis (Group IV)	5.91 ± 0.01^d	1.76 ± 0.02^d	0.88 ± 0.01^d	1.68 ± 0.11^d	1.68 ± 0.11^d	1.84 ± 0.41^d	0.84 ± 0.05^d	1.12 ± 0.14^c	1.6 ± 0.06^d
Passiflora ligularis alone treated; (Group V)	6.56 ± 0.03^ca	1.97 ± 0.01^c	1.16 ± 0.03^a	1.97 ± 0.13^a	1.97 ± 0.13^ad	2.16 ± 0.16^a	1.04 ± 0.2^a	1.53 ± 0.19^d	1.72 ± 0.08^a

Values are expressed as mean ± SD for four animals in each group.
Values not sharing common superscript letters (a–d) differ significantly at (DMRT).