Table 2.
Baseline immunohistochemistry data.
Placebo (N=29) | Vitamin E (N=30) | p-value# | |
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Shh-positive hepatocytes, cells/HPF | 4.5 ± 9.1 | 4.4 ± 8.0 | 0.60 |
K8/18 negative or ubiquitin-positive foci, cells/HPF | 2.8 ± 5.6 | 3.4 ± 6.3 | 0.73 |
SMA-positive stain score, 0 to 4 | 2(1, 2.8) | 2(2, 3) | 0.34 |
Gli2+/sox9+ stain score, 0 to 4 | 1(1, 2) | 2(1, 2) | 0.23 |
#: p-values were from Wilcoxon Rank Sum tests. Data were presented as mean ± SD for numeric variables and median (IQR) for ordinal variables.