| Autor: |
Jun, Hu, Hui, Du, Yinglin, Yuan, Peipei, Guo, Junxia, Yang, Xinru, Yin, Jin, Liu, Shengwang, Wu, Jingyuan, Wan, Xia, Gong |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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| Zdroj: |
Mediators of inflammation. 2022 |
| ISSN: |
1466-1861 |
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Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is the common liver disease characterized by hepatic steatosis, inflammation, and fibrosis; there are no approved drugs to treat this disease because of incomplete understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms of NASH. Milk fat globule-epidermal growth factor-factor 8 (MFG-E8), a multifunctional glycoprotein, has shown anti-inflammation and antifibrosis. Here, MFG-E8 was shown to play a key role in NASH progression. Using methionine and choline deficient (MCD) diet-fed mice, we found MFG-E8 knockout exacerbated hepatic damage and steatosis as indicated by increased plasma transaminases activities and hepatic histopathologic change, higher hepatic triglycerides (TGs), and lipid accumulation. Moreover, liver fibrosis and inflammation elicited by MCD were aggravated in MFG-E8 knockout mice. Mechanistically, MFG-E8 knockout facilitated activation of hepatic toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)/nuclear factor kappa B (NF |
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OpenAIRE |
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