Aqueous Extract from Pepino (Solanum muricatum Ait.) Attenuated Hyperlipidemia and Cardiac Oxidative Stress in Diabetic Mice

Table 5

Cardiac level (nmol/mg protein) of ROS and GSH, activity (nmol/min/mg protein) of GPX and catalase in normal (N), diabetic mice consuming normal diet (D), or 1% (D1), 2% (D2), 5% (D5) pepino at week 8.

	N	D	D1	D2	D5
ROS	0.47 ± 0.11^a	1.30 ± 0.17^d	0.99 ± 0.05^c	0.91 ± 0.07^c	0.66 ± 0.14^b
GSH	11.53 ± 1.11^b	7.78 ± 0.46^a	8.26 ± 0.57^a	8.78 ± 0.89^a	10.77 ± 0.73^b
GPX	342.6 ± 30.9^c	223.0 ± 28.4^a	252.2 ± 35.2^a	302.6 ± 18.5^b	309.3 ± 25.5^b
Catalase	236.9 ± 19.7^c	125.9 ± 25.1^a	149.7 ± 22.7^a	190.5 ± 17.4^b	186.8 ± 21.3^b

Value are represented as mean ± SD (𝑛=10). ^a−dMeans in a row without a common letter differ, 𝑃<0.05.