Behavior of Oxidative Stress Markers in Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis Patients

Table 4

Results of oxidative stress markers determined in serum and total blood of the study participants.

	Control	Patients with ALC
		ALC	Child-Pugh A	Child-Pugh B	Child-Pugh C
Sex, F/M; (%)	39/91; (30/70)	2/55; (3.5/96.4)	1/21; (1.8/36.8)	1/25; (1.8/43.8)	0/9; (0/15.7)
Carbonylated proteins (nmol carbonylated prot./mg prot.)	0.05 ± 0.007	0.05 ± 0.007	0.05 ± 0.01	0.04 ± 0.01	0.08 ± 0.01
MDA (nmol MDA/mg prot.)	0.1 ± 0.01	0.2 ±	0.18 ±	0.2 ±	0.3 ±
GSH (M)	530.6 ± 9.1	475.5 ± 40.3	191. 3 ±	683.1 ±	570.3 ±
GSSG (M)	207.8 ± 16.6	368.9 ±	663.3 ±	176.8 ±	204.6 ±
GSH/GSSG ratio	2.1 ± 0.2	0.1 ± 1.5	−0.5 ± 2.2	−0.5 ± 2.8	3.8 ± 1.2

Values represented as the mean ± SEM. , control group versus ALC group; , control group versus Child-Pugh A subgroup; , control group versus Child-Pugh B patients; , control group versus Child-Pugh C subgroup; , Child-Pugh A versus Child-Pugh B subgroups; , Child-Pugh A subgroup versus Child-Pugh C patients; , Child-Pugh B patients versus Child-Pugh C subgroup.