Antioxidant enzymes and platelet function in malignant mesothelioma

Abstract

The presented study has been carried out to investigate the activity of free radical-scavenging enzymes; super-oxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and platelet functions in 12 malignant mesothelioma (MM) patients and 12 healthy persons. Although, in MM patients SOD and GPx enzyme activities were lower than the controls, this was not statistically significant. On the other hand CA T activity was markedly lower in the MM patients (p