I just love those phrases...
"liver injury on coagulopathic pigs"
"Testing in anesthetized swine"
On a side note, decreased PT is a major, obvious clinical manifestation of advanced-stage liver disease. In fact, some have postulated that a simpler, less invasive formula exists to predict outcomes without a liver biopsy (using platelet counts in a formula, related to PT)
see Hepatology August 2003 pp 520-526. Can't post the pdf...
"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."
- Dan Quayle