Effects of warm ischemia time on biliary injury in rat liver transplantation

Table 3 Effect of different secondary warm ischemia times on cholangiocyte proliferation, apoptosis index of bile duct epithelial cells and bile duct injury severity score (mean ± SD)

Group	Cholangiocyte proliferation		Apoptosis index		Severity score
	6 h	24 h	6 h	24 h	6 h	24 h
I	25.81 ± 3.50	26.13 ± 2.60	0.87 ± 0.50	0.53 ± 0.60	0	0
II	17.38 ± 4.31a	16.91 ± 5.67a	5.83 ± 0.51	7.15 ± 0.62	2.6 ± 0.3	2.8 ± 0.2
III	14.36 ± 3.69ac	12.90 ± 2.48ac	7.57 ± 0.32c	8.98 ± 0.65c	3.7 ± 0.3c	3.8 ± 0.4c
IV	10.19 ± 0.49ce	9.01 ± 3.65ce	8.96 ± 0.67ce	9.92 ± 0.47c	4.8 ± 0.2ce	5.0 ± 0.3ce

^aP < 0.05 vs group I;

^cP < 0.05 vs group II;

^eP < 0.05 vs group III.