Chronic garlic administration protects rat heart against oxidative stress induced by ischemic reperfusion injury

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Table 2 Effect of chronic administration of raw garlic homogenate on TBA-RS, GSH, catalase, SOD and GPx in rat heart after ischemic-reperfusion injury

Group	TBA-RS (n mole/gm wet wt.)	GSH (μg/gm wet wt.)	CATALASE (U/mg protein)	SOD (U/mg protein)	GPx (mU/mg protein)
C	203.03 ± 11.52	479.17 ± 40.76	49.49 ± 2.91	6.88 ± 0.79	357.41 ± 38.41
C-IR	259.96 ± 22.48^ac	284.57 ± 24.33^cc	14.41 ± 1.94^cc	4.61 ± 0.65^ac	272.30 ± 24.02^ac
G-125	161.43 ± 26.05^b	366.93 ± 18.44^b	21.01 ± 5.56	16.29 ± 3.16^c	287.83 ± 37.29
G-250	130.78 ± 11.36^c	398.19 ± 13.90^b	45.35 ± 5.69^c	17.99 ± 2.93^c	316.20 ± 51.26
G-500	197.77 ± 25.79^a	371.18 ± 16.53^b	12.35 ± 1.70	4.23 ± 0.59	288.31 ± 28.92

All values are expressed as Mean ± SE (n = 6). p values: ac < 0.05, cc < 0.001 vs Control a < 0.05, b < 0.02, c < 0.001 vs C-IR (One way ANOVA)