Hypocholesterolemic and Antiatherosclerotic Potential of Basella alba Leaf Extract in Hypercholesterolemia-Induced Rabbits

Table 4

Levels of antioxidant enzymes in serum of rabbits from various groups.

	G1	G2	G3	G4	G5
SOD (U/mL)
Baseline	5.88 ± 0.17	5.63 ± 0.25	5.93 ± 0.11	5.72 ± 0.15	5.84 ± 0.12
Week 4	5.98 ± 0.21	5.49 ± 0.34	5.61 ± 0.18	5.39 ± 0.30	5.33 ± 0.21
Week 8	6.05 ± 0.22	5.35 ± 0.29	5.25 ± 0.25	4.96 ± 0.17	5.10 ± 0.31
Week 12	6.20 ± 0.18	4.91 ± 0.20	5.04 ± 0.28	5.21 ± 0.73	5.38 ± 0.35
GPx (U/L)
Baseline	1243.73 ± 91.21	1211.65 ± 101.19	1443.10 ± 55.78	1313.95 ± 232.95	1401.20 ± 171.33
Week 4	1330.85 ± 77.53	1198.58 ± 90.38	1351.83 ± 128.17	1277.18 ± 184.68	1274.78 ± 124.44
Week 8	1459.45 ± 175.80	1055.30 ± 62.23	1205.00 ± 82.15	1079.55 ± 213.70	1169.20 ± 82.50
Week 12	1595.35 ± 219.20	885.23 ± 43.84	975.53 ± 62.41	1241.63 ± 181.98	1418.5 ± 82.55

G1: normal control, G2: hypercholesterolemic control, G3: simvastatin-treated (10 mg/kg), G4: B. alba extract-treated (100 mg/kg), and G5: B. alba extract-treated (200 mg/kg). All data are presented as the mean ± SD ( for each group). One-way ANOVA was performed followed by Dunnett’s post hoc test for multiple comparisons. Within a week, values sharing the same superscript letters are not significantly different from each other ( < 0.05).