Alleviation of Antioxidant Defense System by Ozonized Olive Oil in DNBS-Induced Colitis in Rats

Table 3

Effects of OO and OZO in noninflamed and inflamed rats.

Treatment	Noninflamed (intrarectal vehicle)			Inflamed (intrarectal DNBS 15 mg per rat)
	Nontreated	OO (6 mg/kg)	OZO (6 mg/kg)	Nontreated	OO (6 mg/kg)	OZO (3 mg/kg)	OZO (6 mg/kg)
GSH-Px U/g prot.	1.29 ± 0.14	2.09 ± 0.37	2.9 ± 0.26	0.75 ± 0.11^d	0.76 ± 0.14	0.84 ± 0.13^a	1.22 ± 0.15^b
CAT (KU/gr prot.)	493.48 ± 11.87	523.23 ± 18.04	541 ± 19.65	366.40 ± 17.52^d	384.85 ± 11.16	431.88 ± 22.72	487.12 ± 17.79^c
SOD (U/g)	62.50 ± 5.44	72.41 ± 9.35	74.52 ± 6.24	49.33 ± 3.16^d	56.75 ± 2.35	69.01 ± 0.19^a	78.67 ± 3.71^b
TBARS (nmol/g prot.)	0.056 ± 0.10	0.042 ± 0.26	0.12 ± 0.09	0.67 ± 0.30^d	0.632 ± 0.26	0.619 ± 0.32	0.624 ± 0.18

< 0.01, 0.001, 0.05, respectively, versus inflamed nontreated group.
< 0.05 versus intrarectal vehicle.