Recovery from Liver Failure and Fibrosis in a Rat Portacaval Anastomosis Model after Neurointermediate Pituitary Lobectomy

Figure 6

Effects of neurointermediate pituitary lobectomy (NIL), portacaval anastomosis (PCA), and PCA+NIL on the relative expression of (a) collagen type 1 (COLI), (b) metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), and (c) metalloproteinase-13 (MMP-13). (a) : IC vs. PCA-NIL and : IC vs. PCA. (b) Nonstatistical differences between groups were apparent. (c) : IC vs. NIL, : IC vs. PCA+NIL, and : NIL vs. PCA. The intact control (IC) group served as reference. It was evaluated with analysis of variance test with the Kruskal-Wallis test and Dunn’s post hoc values, which are expressed as the .

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