Hematotesticular barrier is altered from early stages of liver cirrhosis: Effect of insulin-like growth factor 1

Table 2 Cellular analysis: Thirty seminiferous tubuli were examined in each preparation. The table summarizes the number of tubuli in each category: category I, only Sertoli s cells; category II, I + spermatids; category III, II + spermatocytes; category IV, all types of cells but with some alterations; category V, all types of cells with normal features

Category	I	II	III	IV	V
Controls (CO) (n = 10) × 30 tubuli	0	0	0	2	298
Untreated cirrhotic rats (CI) (n = 10) × 30 tubuli	0	0	5	20	275
IGF-treated cirrhotic rats (CI + IGF) (n = 10) × 30 tubuli	0	0	0	8	292
Statistical analysis (P)	ns	ns	ns	aP < 0.05	ns

^aP < 0.05, CI vs CO group.