Hujin Pill′s antisteatosis of rat liver: evaluation of histopathology and ultrastructure

Figure 1 The ultrastructure of rat hepatocytes in pathology group. The hepatocyte nuclei were crushed by lots of fat drops and became distorted and shrunken. A lot of fat drops were densely accumulated in cytoplasm and the diameter of some single fat drops could reach 4 μm. The roughly surfaced endoplasm was broken with distortion, concentration or desalination around m itochodria. HE × 5000

Figure 2 The ultrastructure of hepatocytes of rats t hat administered Hujin Pill at a dose of 5 g/kg BW. The fat drops in cytoplasm were largely lessened with insignificantly dilated endoplasm and enlarged mitochodria. Most of the nuclei were regular in shape. The perinuclear space be came normal, some of them were slightly shrunken and the chromatin was evenly distributed.