Table 2.

Ultrastructural analysis of mice livers exposed to ethanol consumption and oral supplementation of β-carotene

Mean SD
	C	LA	MA	B	LA+B	MA+B	P
NAm (μm-2)	0.425±0.119	0.331±0.115	0.364±0.119	0.346±0.134	0.362±0.180	0.347±0.092	0.434
NVm (μm-3)	0.087±0.084	0.056±0.066	0.072±0.097	0.046±0.053	0.062±0.086	0.055±0.031	0.705
TNm	0.142±0.138	0.092±0.108	0.119±0.160	0.075±0.087	0.102±0.141	0.091±0.050	0.705
VVm (μm3/μm3)	0.581±0.150	0.550±0.224	0.530±0.185	0.600±0.090	0.572±0.187	0.435±0.164	0.127
TVm (μm3)	0.849±0.214	0.723±0.313	0.737±0.237	0.891±0.172	0.792±0.295	0.650±0.241	0.109
SVm (μm-1)	2.046±0.486	2.022±0.663	1.558±0.746	1.689±0.522	1.618±0.550	1.772±0.378	0.092
TSm (μm2)	33.687±8.478	29.432±9.453	24.939±13.690	28.432±10.923	25.027±9.236	29.588±5.956	0.158