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. 2016 Apr 10;2016:4694726. doi: 10.1155/2016/4694726

Table 5.

Effects of fish oil on histopathological analysis of liver tissue in rats under chronic ethanol feeding1,2.

Group Fatty change Inflammatory cell infiltration Degeneration and necrosis Fibrosis
Macrovesicular Microvesicular
C 0.0 ± 0.0a 0.0 ± 0.0a 0.0 ± 0.0a 0.0 ± 0.0a 0.0 ± 0.0a
CF25 0.3 ± 0.2a 0.2 ± 0.2a 0.6 ± 0.2ab 0.4 ± 0.2ab 0.0 ± 0.0a
CF57 0.5 ± 0.0a 0.6 ± 0.2a 0.6 ± 0.2ab 0.6 ± 0.2ab 0.4 ± 0.2ab
E 2.0 ± 0.3d 2.4 ± 0.2c 2.6 ± 0.2e 2.0 ± 0.0d 2.2 ± 0.5d
EF25 0.2 ± 0.2ab 1.6 ± 0.2b 1.4 ± 0.2cd 1.4 ± 0.2cd 1.6 ± 0.2cd
EF57 0.4 ± 0.4abc 1.4 ± 0.2b 1.8 ± 0.4d 1.0 ± 0.3bc 1.0 ± 0.0bc

1Values are expressed as the mean ± SEM. Means in the same column with different superscript letters significantly differ (p < 0.05).

2C, control; CF25, control with 25% fish oil substituted for olive oil; CF57, control with 57% fish oil substituted for olive oil; E, ethanol; EF25, ethanol with 25% fish oil substituted for olive oil; EF57, ethanol with 57% fish oil substituted for olive oil.