Fig. 4

Peroxidative damage; inhibition in the formation of MDA (nmole MDA/mg of protein) against Fenton reagent. Reduced glutathione, gallic acid, quercetin, rutin, vanillin and acetylsalicylic acid were added at 62.5–1000 μg/ml. The test tubes were incubated for four hours at 37 °C followed by two consecutive centrifugations. The resulting microsome was used for peroxidative damage estimation. Reduced glutathione was used as a positive control. Values are represented as mean ± SEM of three samples. ^*(p < 0.05), ^#(p < 0.01) and ^§(p < 0.001) represent significant changes relative to control