Shared and distinct mechanisms of fibrosis

JHW Distler, AH Györfi, M Ramanujam… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Fibrosis is defined as an excessive deposition of connective tissue components and can
affect virtually every organ system, including the skin, lungs, liver and kidney. Fibrotic tissue …

Targeting TGF-β signaling for the treatment of fibrosis

AH Györfi, AE Matei, JHW Distler - Matrix biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) is widely recognized as a core pathway of fibrosis.
Inhibition of TGF-β signaling may thus offer potential for antifibrotic therapies. Long-term …

[HTML][HTML] Recent insights on the role of cholesterol in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

G Arguello, E Balboa, M Arrese, S Zanlungo - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2015 - Elsevier
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) encompasses a spectrum of hepatic
histopathological changes ranging from non-inflammatory intracellular fat deposition to non …

MicroRNAs in common human diseases

Y Li, KV Kowdley - Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of short non-coding RNA molecules that have attracted
tremendous attention from the biological and biomedical research communities over the …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetics: a new bridge between nutrition and health

SW Choi, S Friso - Advances in nutrition, 2010 - Elsevier
Nutrients can reverse or change epigenetic phenomena such as DNA methylation and
histone modifications, thereby modifying the expression of critical genes associated with …

Circulating microRNAs in patients with chronic hepatitis C and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

S Cermelli, A Ruggieri, JA Marrero, GN Ioannou… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
MicroRNAs miR-122, miR-34a, miR-16 and miR-21 are commonly deregulated in liver
fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. This study examined whether circulating levels of …

Effect of miR-34a in regulating steatosis by targeting PPARα expression in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

J Ding, M Li, X Wan, X Jin, S Chen, C Yu, Y Li - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract MicroRNA-34a (miR-34a) is thought to be involved in nonalcoholic fatty liver
disease (NAFLD). However, the association between altered expression of miR-34a and the …

Associations between circulating microRNAs (miR-21, miR-34a, miR-122 and miR-451) and non-alcoholic fatty liver

H Yamada, K Suzuki, N Ichino, Y Ando, A Sawada… - Clinica chimica acta, 2013 - Elsevier
Background In many industrialized countries, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is
recognized as an important disease that increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, type-2 …

Epidemiologic, genetic, pathogenic, metabolic, epigenetic aspects involved in NASH-HCC: current therapeutic strategies

J Gutiérrez-Cuevas, S Lucano-Landeros… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an aggressive human cancer and is
caused as consequences of chronic liver diseases. Although HCC is more common in …

miR-34a/SIRT1/p53 is suppressed by ursodeoxycholic acid in the rat liver and activated by disease severity in human non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

RE Castro, DMS Ferreira, MB Afonso, PM Borralho… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) comprises a spectrum of
stages from simple steatosis to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). However, disease …