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

Table 3 Albumin and bilirubin levels on serum from rats after seven days of partial hepatectomy (PH) and daily ingestion of ethanol and application of vitamins A, C or E

Group	Albumin’ (g/dL)	Bilirubin’ (mg/dL)
Sham	4.5 ± 0.2	0.42 ± 0.01
PH	4.7 ± 0.3	0.40 ± 0.02
PH-EtOH	3.1 ± 0.4ac	1.72 ± 0.04ac
PH-EtOH VA	3.5 ± 0.3ac	1.91 ± 0.06ac
PH-EtOH-VC	4.2 ± 0.2e	0.45 ± 0.01e
PH-EtOH-VE	4.6 ± 0.3e	0.29 ± 0.03ace

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

^aP < 0.05 vs the sham group;

^cP < 0.05 vs the hepatectomized group;

^eP < 0.05 vs hepatectomized + ethanol group.