Alleviation of Carbon-Tetrachloride-Induced Liver Injury and Fibrosis by Betaine Supplementation in Chickens

Table 2

Characteristic features of the experimental groups.

	Control	Betaine	CCl4	CCl4-betaine
Body weights (g)	60.766 ± 1.030	58.515 ± 0.626	61.890 ± 0.758	54.146 ± 0.838
Relative liver weight (%)	2.804 ± 0.090	3.177 ± 0.052	2.670 ± 0.033	3.4122 ± 0.097
Plasma parameters:
AST (IU/L)	81.364 ± 8.635	63.372 ± 6.023	84.310 ± 11.500	78.266 ± 4.017
ALT (IU/L)	3.492 ± 0.943	3.543 ± 0.534	2.968 ± 0.810	2.729 ± 0.398

Values were presented as the mean ± SEM. Data were analyzed by two-way ANOVA (). Means with the same letter were not significantly different ().