Effects of Antarctic krill oil on lipid and glucose metabolism in C57BL/6J mice fed with high fat diet

Table 5 Histological characteristics of liver from mice fed different diets for 12 weeks^a

Item	Definition	Score	Percentage of each category in different groups (n = 10 per group)
Item	Definition	Score	NC diet	HF diet	KO diet
Ballooning	None	0	100	0	80
	Few balloon cells	1	0	10	20
	Many cells/prominent ballooning	2	0	90	0

^aThe histological diagnosis was performed according to the NAFLD scoring systemThe degree of liver cell injury was measured on the point scale 0–2, indicating ballooning in hepatocytes in our present study

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