Table 3

- Impact of Gardenia latifolia extract (GLE) on the endogenous invivo antioxidant levels in high fat diet-streptozotocin diabetic rats.

Treatment groupSuperoxide dismutaseCatalaseGlutathione
Normal control9.75± 0.5415.14 ± 0.3719.22 ± 0.59
Diabetic control3.47 ± 0.33*4.06 ± 0.37*7.78 ± 0.47*
Diabetic + Metformin8.42 ± 0.2710.60 ± 0.4015.75 ± 0.48
Diabetic + GLE 250mg/kg p.o6.85 ± 0.248.34 ± 0.4711.96 ± 0.77
Diabetic + GLE 500mg/kg p.o7.52 ± 0.299.88 ± 0.2213.88 ± 0.48

Data are indicated as mean ± SD (n=6) at p<0.05. One-way analysis of variance thereafter by Tukey’s t-test is performed to compare means.

  • * p<0.001, compared to normal control group;

  • p<0.001 compared to diabetic control group.