Review Article
Green Tea Polyphenols for the Protection against Renal Damage Caused by Oxidative Stress
Table 1
Effect of (−)-epicatechin 3-
O-gallate and free radical inhibitors on plasma NO and
radicals in rats.
| Group | NO (M) | (O.D.) |
| Sham operation | 1.71 ± 0.18 | 0.315 ± 0.013 | LPS plus ischemia-reperfusion | | | Control | 15.33 ± 0.72b | 0.371 ± 0.011a | (−)-Epicatechin 3-O-gallate (10 mg/kg B.W.) | 15.02 ± 1.15b | 0.377 ± 0.019b | (−)-Epicatechin 3-O-gallate (20 mg/kg B.W.) | 14.24 ± 0.33b | 0.401 ± 0.008b | Ebselen (5 mg/kg B.W.) | 15.98 ± 1.35b | 0.345 ± 0.007 | Uric acid (62.5 mg/kg B.W.) | 15.08 ± 1.15b | 0.360 ± 0.026a | SOD (10,000 U/kg B.W.) | 19.04 ± 1.72b,d | 0.336 ± 0.016c | L-6-(1-iminoethyl)lysine hydrochloride (3 mg/kg B.W.) | 3.39 ± 0.25e | 0.363 ± 0.022a |
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Significance: a, b versus sham operation values; c, d, e versus LPS plus ischemia-reperfused control values.
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