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Mice pretreated orally with SDE (0.5 and 1.0 g\/kg) and silymarin (200 mg\/kg) for five consecutive days before the administering of a single dose of 0.2% CCl<jats:sub>4<\/jats:sub>(10 ml\/kg of bw, ip) showed a significant inhibition of the increase of serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST). Histological analyses also showed that SDE (0.5 and 1.0 g\/kg) and silymarin reduced the extent of liver lesions induced by CCl<jats:sub>4<\/jats:sub>, including vacuole formation, neutrophil infiltration and necrosis. Moreover, SDE decreased the malondialdehyde (MDA) level and elevated the content of reduced glutathione (GSH) in the liver as compared to those in the CCl<jats:sub>4<\/jats:sub>group. Furthermore, SDE (0.5 and 1.0 g\/kg) enhanced the activities of anti-oxidative enzymes including superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPx), glutathione reductase (GRd) and glutathione-S-transferase (GST). The quantities of active constituents in SDE were about 3.1 mg luteolin\/g extract and 1.1 mg apigenin\/g extract. The hepatoprotective mechanisms of SDE were likely associated to the decrease in MDA level and increase in GSH level by increasing the activities of antioxidant enzymes such as SOD, GPx, GRd and GST. 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