Protective effect of some vitamins against the toxic action of ethanol on liver regeneration induced by partial hepatectomy in rats

Table 1 Mortality and body weight parameters in each experimental group after seven days of treatment partial hepatectomy (PH), ethanol (EtOH) and some vitamins

Group	Mortality (%)	Initial body Weight’ (g)	Final body weight’ (g)	Differential between final and initial weight (g)
Sham	0/30 (0)	259 ± 10	274 ± 1	15
PH	0/30 (0)	250 ± 11	267 ± 10	17
PH-EtOH	22/30 (73.3)a	255 ± 10	276 ± 15	21
PH-EtOH-VA	16/30 (53.3)e	255 ± 12	270 ± 12	15
PH-EtOH-VC	10/30 (33.3)e	260 ± 12	275 ± 10	15
PH-EtOH-VE	8/30 (26.6)e	242 ± 10	258 ± 11	16

¹Values are the mean ± SE of survivors for each experimental group (n = 8-22) as it corresponds. VA: Vitamin A; VC: Vitamin C; VE: Vitamin E.

^aP < 0.05 vs the sham group;

^eP < 0.05 vs hepatectomized + ethanol group.