Animal models of non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease: current perspectives and recent advances

JKC Lau, X Zhang, J Yu - The Journal of pathology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a continuous spectrum of diseases
characterized by excessive lipid accumulation in hepatocytes. NAFLD progresses from …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of mutant Ras proteins on the cell signalome

T Takács, G Kudlik, A Kurilla, B Szeder, L Buday… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2020 - Springer
The genetic alterations in cancer cells are tightly linked to signaling pathway dysregulation.
Ras is a key molecule that controls several tumorigenesis-related processes, and mutations …

Squalene epoxidase drives NAFLD-induced hepatocellular carcinoma and is a pharmaceutical target

D Liu, CC Wong, L Fu, H Chen, L Zhao, C Li… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)–induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an
emerging malignancy in the developed world; however, mechanisms that contribute to its …

[PDF][PDF] The polyploid state plays a tumor-suppressive role in the liver

S Zhang, K Zhou, X Luo, L Li, HC Tu, A Sehgal… - Developmental cell, 2018 - cell.com
Most cells in the liver are polyploid, but the functional role of polyploidy is unknown.
Polyploidization occurs through cytokinesis failure and endoreduplication around the time of …

[HTML][HTML] O-GlcNAc transferase promotes fatty liver-associated liver cancer through inducing palmitic acid and activating endoplasmic reticulum stress

W Xu, X Zhang, J Wu, L Fu, K Liu, D Liu, GG Chen… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background & Aims O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) is a unique glycosyltransferase involved in
metabolic reprogramming. We investigated the functional role of OGT in non-alcoholic fatty …

Impact of obesity and overweight on DNA stability: Few facts and many hypotheses

T Setayesh, A Nersesyan, M Mišík, F Ferk… - … research/reviews in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Health authorities are alarmed worldwide about the increase of obesity and overweight in
the last decades which lead to adverse health effects including inflammation, cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity, inflammation, and cancer in dogs: Review and perspectives

PH Marchi, THA Vendramini, MP Perini… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Obesity is the most common nutritional disease in dogs, and its prevalence has increased in
recent decades. Several countries have demonstrated a prevalence of obesity in dogs …

Advancing the understanding of NAFLD to hepatocellular carcinoma development: From experimental models to humans

K Chen, J Ma, X Jia, W Ai, Z Ma, Q Pan - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has recently been recognized as an important
etiology contributing to the increased incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). NAFLD …

Deranged hepatocyte intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis and the progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease to hepatocellular carcinoma

ES Ali, GY Rychkov, GJ Barritt - Cell calcium, 2019 - Elsevier
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in
men, and the sixth in women. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is now one of the …

Obesity and cancer: A mechanistic overview of metabolic changes in obesity that impact genetic instability

P Kompella, KM Vasquez - Molecular carcinogenesis, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Obesity, defined as a state of positive energy balance with a body mass index exceeding 30
kg/m2 in adults and 95th percentile in children, is an increasing global concern …