“…Slides were cleared with 100% xylene, mounted in Per-mount, dried overnight at 37°C and photographed by light microscopy to document collagen surrounding the bile ducts. ImageJ was used to auto-color balance the images using the macro by Vytas Bindokas at https://digital.bsd.uchicago.edu/docs/imagej_macros/_graybalancetoROI.txt followed by application of the MRI fibrosis tool to quantify percentage area of fibrosis (red-stain) at default settings (red 1: 0.148, green 1: 0.772, blue 1: 0.618, red 2: 0.462, green 2: 0.602, blue 2: 0.651, red 3: 0.187, green 3: 0.523, blue 3: 0.831) (Pereira, 2016). Twenty discrete images (200×) stained with Picro-Sirius Red from each hamster (five animals per treatment group) were assessed, that is 100 images per group.…”