Index

Rats injected with water

(control)

Rats injected with nanoparticles

Rats injected with nanoparticles and administered a BPC

Liver

Akaryotic hepatocytes per 100 cells

17.6 ± 0.6

18.5 ± 1.3

13.0 ± 1.0*⁺

Kupffer cells per 100 liver cells

16.5 ± 0.5

25.0 ± 0.8*

20.0 ± 0.6*⁺

Average particle load of Kupffer cells, score^#

0

0.91 ± 0.7

0.51 ± 0.09⁺

Spleen

White to red pulp ratio^†

0.59 ± 0.036

0.37 ± 0.035*

0.59 ± 0.086⁺