Table 4.

Effects of fish oil on hepatic histopathology in rats with chronic ethanol feeding ^1,2.

			F25	F57	Ethanol × Fish Oil
Steatosis	C	0.2 ± 0.2	0.2 ± 0.2	0.4 ± 0.2	0.0194
	E	2.2 ± 0.2 *,e	1.0 ± 0.4 f	0.6 ± 0.4 f
Inflammatory cell infiltration	C	0.6 ± 0.2	0.4 ± 0.2	0 ± 0	0.042
	E	2.8 ± 0.2 *,e	1.2 ± 0.4 f	0.8 ± 0.5 f
Fibrosis	C	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0 ± 0	0.3157
	E	0.6 ± 0.2	0.2 ± 0.2	0.2 ± 0.2

¹ Values are expressed as the mean ± SEM. An asterisk (*) shows a significant difference between C and E groups (p < 0.05). Means with different superscript letters shows a significant difference (^e,f) among the E, EF25, and EF57 groups (p < 0.05). ² Details are the same as those described in Table 3.