Physiological Evaluation to the Antioxidant Efficacy of Quercetin Against Ascorbic Acid in Rats

Abstract

Fortyeight male rats were adopted to estate the antioxidant efficacy difference between the flavonoid Quercetin against the vitamin Ascorbic acid when these animals are being subjected to the potent oxidant agent; the hydrogen peroxide. The results elucidated that, H2O2 could cause a significantelevations in malondialdehyde, glutathione peroxidase, catalase, superoxide dismutase, aminotransferases, alkaline phosphatase, total cholesterol, triglycerides, low and very low density lipoproteins. The Quercetin and Ascorbic Acid, could cause significant declinations and improvement of the above mentioned parameters, with approximately little supremacy for Quercetin, as it is seen in details of the results.