A Comparison of Wound Healing Rate Following Treatment with Aftamed and Chlorine Dioxide Gels in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats

Table 1

Mean ± SEM of the glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activities and the malondialdehyde (MDA) levels in the tissue homogenates of day-10 dermal wounds of the control, Intrasite gel-treated, chlorine dioxide gel-treated, and Aftamed gel-treated diabetic rats.

	No. of animals	Control	Intrasite gel	Chlorine dioxide gel	Aftamed gel
GPx (μ/g protein)	6	12.54±0.25^a	35.17±0.58	24.38±0.32^a	31.83±1.68^a
SOD (u/mg protein)	6	19.41±0.42^b	51.23±0.35^b	32.67±0.49^b	49.73±0.44^b
MDA (nmol/g protein	6	92.94±0.27^c	13.00±0.26^c	22.50±0.48^c	14.50±0.48^c

All values are expressed as the mean + SEM. Means labeled with different superscripts were significantly different. These differences were significant at the 0.05 level.