Table 1.

Quantitative Analysis of the Intrahepatic Biliary Tree in Normal and Two Groups of PCK Rats by Three-Dimensional Reconstruction

	Normal rat	PCK rat
		3 month old	6 month old
Diameter (μm)
Proximal segments	218 ± (38)	596 ± (198)*	1078 ± (265)*†
Distal segments	21 ± (6)	37 ± (7)*	39 ± (67)*
Number of interbranch segments	9 ± (3)	15 ± (6)*	16 ± (4)*
Length of interbranch segment (mm)	1.44 ± (0.39)	1.82 ± (0.32)*	2.15 ± (0.49)*
Length of the biliary tree (mm)	14.48 ± (4.94)	25.17 ± (7.65)*	26.64 ± (8.39)*
Biliary tree volume (μl)	47 ± (7)	892 ± (229)*	484 ± (108)*†

^*Compare to normal rats. 

^†Compare to 3-month-old PCK rats; P < 0.05.