Table 3.
Immunohistochemical expression of GFAP of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) in the liver of the studied experimental animal groups.
| Group (N = 20) | GFAP |
χ2 | P | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | I | II | III | |||||
| G I: Infected control group (%) | 0 | 10 | 25 | 65 | 27.583 | 0.001** | ||
| G II: PZQ treated group (%) | 0 | 25 | 40 | 35 | ||||
| G III: MSCs treated group (%) | 25 | 50 | 20 | 5 | ||||
| G I & G II | G I & G III | G II & G III | ||||||
| 0.151 | 0.001** | 0.006** | ||||||
** P values ˂ 0.01
Semi-quantitative grading of HSCs immunostained by GFAP was determined as follows: 0: no staining or less than 3% stained; I: 3–33% positive staining; II: 34–66% positive staining; and III: more than 66% positive staining.