Dietary Supplementation of Leucine in Premating Diet Improves the Within-Litter Birth Weight Uniformity, Antioxidative Capability, and Immune Function of Primiparous SD Rats

Table 6

Effect of dietary leucine supplementation on plasma and liver antioxidant enzyme activity and oxidant products on day −1 of pregnancy in SD rats.

Items	Control	0.6% leucine	value
Plasma
SOD (U/mL)			≪0.01
CAT (U/mL)			0.037
GSH-Px (U/mL)			0.032
MDA (nmol/ml)			0.56
Liver
SOD (U/mL)			0.483
CAT (U/mL)			0.019
GSH-Px (U/mL)			0.170
MDA (nmol/ml)			0.143

Value is the mean ± standard error of means of nine replicates; is means labeled with significant difference (); is means labeled with extreme difference ().