Protective Effects of Carvacrol against Oxidative Stress Induced by Chronic Stress in Rat’s Brain, Liver, and Kidney

Table 4

Effect of CAR on MDA (nmol/mgp), GSH (µmol/mgp), SOD (U/mgp), GPx (U/mgp), GR (U/mgp), and CAT (U/mgp) levels in kidney of immobilization stress and control groups (, for each group).

Kidney	MDA	GSH	SOD	GPx	GR	CAT
Veh-NS	1.79 ± 0.33	7.65 ± 0.36	4.12 ± 0.27	2.34 ± 0.15	1.88 ± 0.07	5.01 ± 0.24
Veh-S	4.08 ± 0.29	3.81 ± 0.41	2.51 ± 0.11	0.86 ± 0.12	1.02 ± 0.11	2.73 ± 0.11
CAR20-NS	1.67 ± 0.21	7.29 ± 0.28	4.01 ± 0.14	2.05 ± 0.10	1.68 ± 0.23	4.89 ± 0.31
CAR30-NS	1.83 ± 0.38	7.83 ± 0.47	3.87 ± 0.33	2.11 ± 0.23	1.93 ± 0.14	5.22 ± 0.42
CAR40-NS	1.74 ± 0.41	7.08 ± 0.32	4.28 ± 0.10	1.92 ± 0.27	2.03 ± 0.10	5.10 ± 0.23
CAR20-S	3.77 ± 0.25	4.65 ± 0.12	2.88 ± 0.20	1.02 ± 0.48	1.24 ± 0.05	2.65 ± 0.27
CAR30-S	2.90 ± 0.17	5.85 ± 0.22	3.43 ± 0.45	1.37 ± 0.26	1.36 ± 0.17	3.12 ± 0.51
CAR40-S	1.93 ± 0.46	6.88 ± 0.31	4.05 ± 0.19	2.25 ± 0.33	1.72 ± 0.16	4.55 ± 0.18

Each measurement was done at least in triplicate and the values are the means ± SEM for eight rats in each group.
Significantly different from Veh-NS groups (, ).
Significantly different from Veh-S groups (, , and ).
Significant difference in CAR20-S versus CAR30-S and CAR40-S groups (, , and ).
Significant difference in CAR30-S group versus CAR40-S group ().