Figure 3From: Experimental obstructive cholestasis: the wound-like inflammatory liver responseMicrosurgical technique of extrahepatic cholestasis in the rat. The common bile duct and the lobular bile ducts are sectioned between ligations. The dissection, ligation and sectioning of the lobular bile ducts must be performed without damaging either the portal or arterial vascularization of these lobes. CL, caudate lobe; LLL, left lateral lobe; ML, middle lobe; RLL, right lateral lobe.Back to article page