Urinary Excretion of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin in Diabetic Rats

Table 2

Evaluation of oxidative stress at 7 days.

	Control	Diabetic	Diabetic-insulin treated
CAT (U/mL)	1780 ± 294.7	1459 ± 109.6	1791 ± 205.3
GPx (U/mL)	106.2 ± 1.19	116.1 ± 2.46	109.1 ± 3.17
SOD (U/mL)	651.8 ± 9.52	662.0 ± 10.96	683.6 ± 6.79
Carbonyl content in Ctx (nmol/mg protein)	1.75 ± 0.90	4.36 ± 1.67	2.72 ± 0.25
Carbonyl content in Med (nmol/mg protein)	13.73 ± 3.01	7.91 ± 2.28	7.26 ± 2.89
4-HNE content in Ctx (nmol/mg protein)	0.22 ± 0.19	0.89 ± 0.22	0.83 ± 0.27
4-HNE content in Med (nmol/mg protein)	0.41 ± 0.25	1.09 ± 0.28	1.04 ± 0.30

CAT: catalase, GPx: glutathione peroxidase, SOD: superoxide dismutase, Ctx: renal cortex, Med: renal medulla, and 4-HNE: 4-hydroxynonenal. Data are mean SEM of 8 animals in each group. versus control; versus diabetic.