Total Antioxidant Status (TAS), Superoxide Dismutase (SOD), and Glutathione Peroxidase (GPx) in Oropharyngeal Cancer Associated with EBV Infection

Table 2

TAS level (mmol/10 mg of protein) and GPx (U/mg of protein) and SOD (U/10 mg of protein) activities in the tissue of EBV-positive and EBV-negative patients in comparison with the control group.

	Patients ()		Controls ()	value^2
	EBV+	EBV-
TAS				10^-5
value^1	0.0173
GPx				10^-6
value^1	10^-6
SOD				10^-6
value^1	10^-6

Statistically significant; 1: Mann-Whitney test; 2: ANOVA Kruskal-Wallis test.