Fig. 1

SR-FTIR analysis on cirrhotic liver. Tissue sections of 5 µm thickness were performed from cirrhosis and stained with HES (hematoxylin, eosin and safran). Cirrhosis exhibiting nodules surrounded by fibrosis are shown at ×40 magnification (upper left). Synchrotron-FTIR was performed on tissue section of cirrhosis at the resolution 10 µm × 10 µm (black square on upper right). The infrared spectrum is shown