Research Article

Protective Effect of Alpha-Tocopherol Isomer from Vitamin E against the H2O2 Induced Toxicity on Dental Pulp Cells

Table 3

Percentage of viability of MDPC-23 cells treated with different alpha-tocopherol concentrations followed by exposure or not to hydrogen peroxide.

H2O2Alpha-tocopherol concentrations
01 mM3 mM5 mM10 mM

0%100.5 (97–104)a,A,G194 (87–100)ab,A,G387 (86–91)bc,A,G490 (79–92)bc,AB,G586 (77–88)c,AB,G6
0.018% 41.5 (36–43.5)a,B,G257 (52–60)b,B,G768 (64–73)bc,B,G875 (67–84)c,A,G972.5 (69–78)c,A,G10

Lowercase letters permit comparisons within rows while uppercase letters permit comparisons within columns. Groups identified with the same letters do not differ significantly (Mann-Whitney test, ).