Table 4b Treatments induced inflammatory cell clusters in mice livers. HFD and Alc+HFD treatments significantly induced large inflammatory cell clusters compared with Chow

From: Effect of multiple binge alcohol on diet-induced liver injury in a mouse model of obesity

Treatment

No. of mice

Large clusters (>15 cells)

 

No clusters (0 cells)

Small clusters (1–5 cells)

Intermediate clusters (6–15 cells)

 

Chow (n=4)

4

0

0

0

Alcohol (n=4)

0

2

2

0

HFD (n=8)

0

1

2

5**

Alc+HFD (n=4)

0

1

0

3*

  1. Abbreviations: Alc, alcohol; HFD, high fat diet. χ2 analysis and Fisher’s exact test comparing numbers of mice with or without clusters. Ordinary one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiple comparisons test; *P<0.05, **P<0.01.