The statuses of lipid peroxidation, M1/M2 macrophage polarization, necroptosis, and pyroptosis were determined through immunohistochemistry staining, per a previously reported method [7 ,8 (link),9 (link),10 (link),11 (link)]. Liver tissues (in paraffin sections) were incubated with primary antibodies against one of the following: malondialdehyde (MDA; Abcam), a lipid peroxidation-related protein [33 (link)]; inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS; Abcam), an M1 phase macrophage polarization-related protein [34 (link)]; CD206 (Abcam), an M2 phase macrophage polarization-related protein [34 (link)]; phosphorylated mixed lineage kinase domain-like pseudokinase (pMLKL; Abcam), a necroptosis-related protein [35 (link)]; or NLRP3 (Abcam), a pyroptosis-related protein [17 (link)]. All the sections were observed under the TissueGnostics Axio Observer Z1 microscope (TissueGnostics, Vienna, Austria) and then quantified and analyzed using the image processing software Image J.
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