Figure 2

Macroscopic aspect of liver and functional hepatic tests. A, a) a representative image a normal rat liver, b and c shows a recovered hepatic smooth texture in animals treated with the combinatorial gene therapy at 8 and 10 days, respectively, as compared with irrelevant gene therapy (e and f), d) shows a control fibrotic liver injected with saline. Histograms in B, show a significative tendency to normal values of hepatic functional tests (ALT and AST).