Ferrotoxicity and Its Amelioration by Calcitriol in Cultured Renal Cells

Table 1

Descriptive statistics.

	Control; ()	Vitamin D; ()	Iohexol; ()	Iohexol+vitamin D; ()
Total cellular iron (nmol/mg protein)				^$$$
Lipid peroxidation (mg/mg protein)				^$$$
Thiol protein (units/mg protein)				^$$
Catalase (units/mg protein)				^$$$
Superoxide dismutase (units/mg protein)				^$$$
Cell viability (%)				^$

Results were represented as . One-way ANOVA and Tukey posttest () were used to analyse the results. , , and (2-tailed) versus control; ^$; ^$$, and ^$$$ (2-tailed) iohexol versus iohexol+vitamin D groups.