Alcoholic liver disease

HK Seitz, R Bataller, H Cortez-Pinto, B Gao… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2018 - nature.com
Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is the most prevalent type of chronic liver disease worldwide.
ALD can progress from alcoholic fatty liver (AFL) to alcoholic steatohepatitis (ASH), which is …

In vivo and in vitro models of hepatocellular carcinoma: current strategies for translational modeling

GR Romualdo, K Leroy, CJS Costa, GB Prata… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly incident and deadly malignant
neoplasia, and only a few anti-HCC drugs are currently available. Thus, the development of …

Diethylnitrosamine (DEN)-induced carcinogenic liver injury in mice

R Tolba, T Kraus, C Liedtke, M Schwarz… - Laboratory …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The toxic properties of various nitrosamines in animals and humans are well established.
The parenteral or oral administration of the smallest quantities of diethylnitrosamine (DEN) …

Pre-clinical and clinical investigations of metabolic zonation in liver diseases: the potential of microphysiology systems

A Soto-Gutierrez, A Gough, LA Vernetti… - Experimental …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The establishment of metabolic zonation within a hepatic lobule ascribes specific functions
to hepatocytes based on unique, location-dependent gene expression patterns. Recently …

[HTML][HTML] CCN4/WISP1 (WNT1 inducible signaling pathway protein 1): a focus on its role in cancer

I Gurbuz, R Chiquet-Ehrismann - The international journal of biochemistry & …, 2015 - Elsevier
The matricellular protein WISP1 is a member of the CCN protein family. It is induced by
WNT1 and is a downstream target of β-catenin. WISP1 is expressed during embryonic …

The contribution of natural selection to present-day susceptibility to chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease

JF Brinkworth, LB Barreiro - Current opinion in immunology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•GWAS suggest pathological inflammation is controlled by a small network of
genes.•Many chronic inflammatory/autoimmune risk alleles occur in regions of positive …

WISP1: Clinical insights for a proliferative and restorative member of the CCN family

K Maiese - Current Neurovascular Research, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
As a proliferative and restorative entity, Wnt1 inducible signaling pathway protein 1 (WISP1)
is emerging as a novel target for a number of therapeutic strategies that are relevant for …

Novel applications of trophic factors, Wnt and WISP for neuronal repair and regeneration in metabolic disease

K Maiese - Neural regeneration research, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Diabetes mellitus affects almost 350 million individuals throughout the globe resulting in
significant morbidity and mortality. Of further concern is the growing population of individuals …

Tea polyphenols EGCG and TF restrict tongue and liver carcinogenesis simultaneously induced by N-nitrosodiethylamine in mice

S Sur, D Pal, R Roy, A Barua, A Roy, P Saha… - Toxicology and Applied …, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to understand the molecular mechanisms of N-nitrosodiethylamine
(NDEA) induced multi-organ carcinogenesis in tongue and liver of the same mouse and …

[HTML][HTML] Disease onset and aging in the world of circular RNAs

K Maiese - Journal of translational science, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Circular ribonucleic acids (circRNAs) are non-coding RNAs of approximately 100
nucleotides in length with thousands of members in mammalian cells. The presence of …