Mitigating Effect of Dietary Dioclea reflexa (Hook F) Seed Inclusion in Experimental Colon Carcinogenesis

Table 2

Correlation analysis of biochemical parameters and dietary constituents following 10 weeks of concomitant MNU instillations and feeding with different levels of D. reflexaseed-included diets.

	MDA	SOD	CAT	GST	NLR	CEA	MMR	Polyphenols	Flavonoids	Fiber
MDA	1	−0.785	−0.756	−0.985	0.707	0.921	−0.848	−0.285	−0.332	−0.289
SOD	−0.785	1	0.939	0.697	−0.978	−0.902	0.958	0.284	0.233	0.134
CAT	−0.756	0.939	1	0.719	−0.974	−0.940	0.862	0.080	0.011	−0.159
GST	−0.985	0.607	0.719	1	−0.633	−0.902	0.759	0.191	0.247	0.191
NLR	0.707	−0.978	−0.974	−0.633	1	0.883	−0.914	−0.228	−0.144	0.019
CEA	0.921	−0.902	−0.940	−0.902	0.883	1	−0.867	−0.078	−0.070	0.024
MMR	−0.848	0.959	0.882	0.759	0.914	−0.867	1	0.515	0.483	0.363
Polyphenols	−0.285	0.284	0.080	0.191	−0.228	−0.078	0.515	1	0.983	0.852
Flavonoids	−0.332	0.233	0.011	0.247	−0.144	−0.070	0.483	0.983	1	0.922
Fiber	−0.289	0.134	−0.159	0.191	0.019	0.024	0.363	0.852	0.922	1

Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). Correlation is significant at 0.05 level (2-tailed). 1 is perfect correlation. Values with negative sign are in correlation in inverse direction. CEA, carcinoembryonic antigen; MDA, malondialdehyde; GST, glutathione S-transferase; CAT, catalase; SOD, superoxide dismutase; MMR, mismatch repair gene; NLR, neutrophil to-lymphocyte ratio.