Cardioprotective Effects of Tualang Honey: Amelioration of Cholesterol and Cardiac Enzymes Levels

Table 3

The protective effects of TH on lipid peroxide (LPO) levels and activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione reductase (GRx), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), and glutathione-S-transferase (GST) in the hearts of normal and treated rats.

Parameters	Treatment
	Control	TH	ISO	TH + ISO
LPO (nmol TBARS/mg of protein)	9.25 ± 0.68^a	9.33 ± 0.96^a	22.42 ± 1.09^c	16.84 ± 1.06^b
SOD (units/mg of protein)	1.46 ± 0.05^a	1.49 ± 0.09^a	0.16 ± 0.01^b	0.19 ± 0.02^b
GPx; (nmol NADPH oxidized/min/mg of protein)	2.86 ± 0.06^c	2.83 ± 0.05^c	1.07 ± 0.19^a	1.86 ± 0.20^b
GRx; (nmol NADPH oxidized/min/mg of protein)	83.66 ± 2.73^b	85.33 ± 2.18^bc	76.59 ± 5.92^a	89.05 ± 5.01^c
GST; (nmol CDNB conjugated/min/mg of protein)	2.39 ± 0.21^b	3.58 ± 0.04^a	0.85 ± 0.02^c	1.89 ± 0.23^b

Results are expressed as the mean ± SD, .
^a,b,cValues in the same row that do not share superscript letters (a, b, and c) differ significantly at < 0.05; TH: Tualang honey; ISO: isoproterenol.