Steatosis recovery after treatment with a balanced sunflower or olive oil-based diet: Involvement of perisinusoidal stellate cells

Figure 5 Western blot analysis of GFAP expression. Top panel: densitometric quantification of GFAP in the high-fat-induced steatotic liver (HL-O and HL-S), and after its treatment with a normal-lipidic diet (NL-O, NL-S). Results were average values of four experimental animals in each group. HL-O, high-lipidic olive oil; NL-O, normal-lipidic olive oil; HL-S, high-lipidic sunflower oil; NL-S, normal-lipidic sunflower oil. Bottom panel: representative autoradiography of the corresponding GFAP band. α-Tubulin immunodetection was also included as a protein-loading control. Protein expression is significantly greater than in HL-O group (^bP<0.001).