Table 2 Effects of Silymarin on OS/NSS parameters.

From: Effect of silymarin on the relative gene expressions of some inflammatory cytokines in the liver of CCl4-intoxicated male rats

Parameters

Groups

Ctrl

SLY

CO

CCl4

Treat-CCl4

Prot-CCl4

NO (µM/mg protein)

4.94 ± 0.2a

4.43 ± 0.1a

10.5 ± 0.7b

24.5 ± 0.8c

14.4 ± 0.8d

10.8 ± 0.9b

MDA (nmol/mg protein)

1.71 ± 0.1a

1.68 ± 0.1a

3.14 ± 0.2b

6.00 ± 0.2c

3.39 ± 0.2d

1.95 ± 0.3e

GSH (mg/mg protein)

2.01 ± 0.0a

2.01 ± 0.0a

1.65 ± 0.1b

0.25 ± 0.0c

1.57 ± 0.0d

1.90 ± 0.0e

GR (µmol/min/mg protein)

0.02 ± 0.0a

0.02 ± 0.0a

0.03 ± 0.0b

0.06 ± 0.0c

0.04 ± 0.0d

0.02 ± 0.0a

GST (µmol/min/mg protein)

6.41 ± 0.2a

6.45 ± 0.2a

4.30 ± 0.0b

1.06 ± 0.0c

3.93 ± 0.0d

5.86 ± 0.1e

GPx (U/mg protein)

16.0 ± 0.4a

16.4 ± 0.2ad

12.0 ± 1.7b

4.0 ± 0.1c

12.3 ± 0.3b

16.8 ± 0.7d

SOD (U/mg protein)

8.98 ± 0.4a

9.34 ± 0.4a

5.53 ± 0.4b

3.73 ± 0.4c

6.44 ± 0.3d

7.49 ± 0.4e

  1. All values are presented as mean ± SD (n = 8), Different characters with the same parameters are significantly different at p < 0.05.