Bacoside A: Role in Cigarette Smoking Induced Changes in Brain

Table 3

Activities of ornithine decarboxylase in brain of control and experimental animals. Values are expressed as Mean ± S.D.

Parameter	Control	Cigarette smoke; (CS)	Bacoside A; (BA)	Cigarette smoke + bacoside A; (CS + BA)	value
Ornithine decarboxylase; nM  of  ^14CO2 released/hr/g tissue	2.0 ± 0.12	5.65 ± 0.52	2.23 ± 0.22	2.45 ± 0.023^*	3489

Significance is indicated for comparisons between control and CS and BA; Group CS versus CS + BA with Dunnett’s T3 post hoc multiple comparison test; .
n.d: not detected.