TABLE 1

Effect of acute cholecystitis, melatonin, and tempol treatment on oxidative stress markers

Data are expressed as mean ± S.E.M. of -fold increase respect to levels found in control tissue. n = 5 to 6 animals.

	AC	DL	DL + MEL 2.5	DL + MEL 30	DL + MEL 4 Days	DL Tempol (1 mM)
MDA level	4.82 ± 0.43	4.32 ± 0.41	1.90 ± 0.37**,^δδ	1.44 ± 0.26**,^δδ	1.20 ± 0.26**,^δδ	1.20 ± 0.21**,^δδ
GSH level	0.31 ± 0.05	0.35 ± 0.05	0.76 ± 0.07*,^δ	0.91 ± 0.06*,^δ	0.89 ± 0.06*,^δ	0.96 ± 0.04*,^δ