In a rat model of acute MI also 25, 50, and 100 mg/kg of carvacrol for 7 days mitigated the infarct size and lowered the level of creatine kinase (CK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and cardiac troponin T. Inconsistent with the finding of this study, carvacrol diminished MDA concentration and elevated SOD, GSH, and glutathione peroxidase (Yu et al., 2013). This evidence concerns the gene SOD1 and myocardial infarction.