. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 7.

Published in final edited form as: J Nutr. 2008 Oct;138(10):1872–1879. doi: 10.1093/jn/138.10.1872

Table 2.

Pathology scores of rats fed C, HF or HF + NAC diets for 65 d¹

Parameter	C (n=4)	HF (n=7)	HF + NAC (n=8)
Cellular Injury	0.0 ± 0.0^a	0.9 ± 0.1^b	0.9 ± 0.1^b
Hepatocellular Ballooning	0.0 ± 0.0^a	2.0 ± 0.4^c	1.1 ± 0.3^b
Lobular Inflammation	0.6 ± 0.2^a	1.3 ± 0.2^b	1.1 ± 0.1^b
Lipidosis (Oil Red O Staining)	0.8 ± 0.2^a	3.5 ± 0.2^b	3.7 ± 0.2^b
Total Score	1.4 ± 0.3^a	8.1 ± 0.6^c	7.0 ± 0.4^b
Total Score - Lipidosis	0.6 ± 0.3^a	4.6 ± 0.6^c	3.3 ± 0.3^b
Fibrosis (Picosirius Red Staining)	3.6 ± 0.6^a	17 ± 2.8^c	7.2 ± 1.9^b

The pathology calculation was based on our previously published system for pathology scoring (15). Values are means ± SEM. Means in a row without a common letter differ, p≤0.05.