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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2010 Nov;52(5):1750–1757. doi: 10.1002/hep.23880

Table 2.

Summary of lesions of long term survivors at euthanasia or death.

No rats. Age range at death LUNG LIVER PANCREAS KIDNEY TESTES
(CIP) Scaring BDH&M BD Cancer Atrophy (CIN) Atrophy Ca
Control rats for 3 and 8 weeks old groups. No CDE treatment
6 17.5–22.5 2* 0 0 0 0.3 2.5* 3* 5/6
3 weeks old rats, completed 5 cycles of CDE
8 12.5–17.5 2.2* 1 2.5 7/8 2.3 1.0* 2* 0
8 weeks old rat, completed 5 cycles of CDE
15 14–23.5 2.5* 0 1.1 1/15 1.2 1.9* 2.7* 0
Retired breeder controls, No CDE treatment
20 13–25 1.8* 0 0 0 0.4 1.5* 3* 11/20a
1 to 11/2 years old mice, completed 5 cycles of CDE
16 18–30 1.5* 0.2 0.3 0 0.7 3.7* 2.8* 11/14b

For grading of bile duct hypertrophy and metaplasia (BDH&M), lung, pancreas, kidney and testes lesions, see supplemental Figure 2.

*

Higher grades in older rats at time of death.

a

All rats over the age of 18.5 months had an interstitial cell cancer of the testes

b

There was no testes tissue on slides from two rats; two rats over the age of 20 months did not have interstitial cell carcinomas of the testes.

(Individual grading for each rat listed in Supplemental Table 2.).