Since the liver is the primary organ for metabolism, then in the setting of liver injury there will be reduced metabolism of compounds such as hormones. If these hormones are not metabolized and degraded in the liver, then these hormone levels will increase.
<em>A particular example is that the hormone estrogen is increased in the setting of liver damage, causing males with liver failure to have feminine characteristics.</em>
A. when evaluating a source for reliability, if they are talking about a product from a company that sponsors them they may not be honest, or if they are sponsored by a reliable company they can be trusted it depends what way you look at it.
If want a direct answer it would be the decrease in mice, but if you want to get technical the decrease in grain spills caused mice to leave so that would be the indirect cause