Curcumin Mitigates Accelerated Aging after Irradiation in Drosophila by Reducing Oxidative Stress

Table 1

Mean longevity recovery by pretreatment of curcumin.

Treatment	Flies numbers	Mean longevity	SD	value
Male
Control	270	44.6889	0.82040	—
IR^a	259	33.2819	0.96298	<0.0001^*
IR + curcumin^b	279	35.1183	0.89536	<0.0001^**
Female
Control	262	31.1908	0.84744	—
IR^a	253	27.0119	0.93228	0.0151^*
IR + curcumin^b	286	34.1748	0.95931	<0.0001^**

Radiation at 10 Gy was irradiated at 3rd instar larval stage.
Flies were cultivated in the medium containing 100 M of curcumin until irradiation.
Compared with control, compared with IR group.