Glucocorticoids and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

CP Woods, JM Hazlehurst, JW Tomlinson - The Journal of steroid …, 2015 - Elsevier
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the hepatic manifestation of the global obesity
and metabolic disease epidemic and is rapidly becoming the leading cause of liver cirrhosis …

Pentacyclic triterpenes: New tools to fight metabolic syndrome

H Sharma, P Kumar, RR Deshmukh, A Bishayee… - Phytomedicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Background: Metabolic syndrome is a combination of dysregulated cardiometabolic risk
factors characterized by dyslipidemia, impaired glucose tolerance, insulin resistance …

Glucocorticoid receptor signaling represses the antioxidant response by inhibiting histone acetylation mediated by the transcriptional activator NRF2

MM Alam, K Okazaki, LTT Nguyen, N Ota… - Journal of Biological …, 2017 - ASBMB
NRF2 (nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2) is a key transcriptional activator that
mediates the inducible expression of antioxidant genes. NRF2 is normally ubiquitinated by …

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and endocrine axes—a scoping review

M Von-Hafe, M Borges-Canha, C Vale, AR Leite… - Metabolites, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease.
NAFLD often occurs associated with endocrinopathies. Evidence suggests that endocrine …

Mitigating efficacy of piperine in the physiological derangements of high fat diet induced obesity in Sprague Dawley rats

P BrahmaNaidu, H Nemani, B Meriga, SK Mehar… - Chemico-biological …, 2014 - Elsevier
An increased risk of obesity has become a common public health concern as it is associated
with hypertension, diabetes, osteoarthritis, heart diseases, liver steatosis etc …

Mechanisms in endocrinology: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in common endocrine disorders

JM Hazlehurst, JW Tomlinson - European Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a spectrum of disease spanning from simple
benign steatosis to steatohepatitis with fibrosis and scarring that can eventually lead to …

Gap junctions in liver disease: Implications for pathogenesis and therapy

M Hernández-Guerra, A Hadjihambi, R Jalan - Journal of hepatology, 2019 - Elsevier
In the normal liver, cells interact closely through gap junctions. By providing a pathway for
the trafficking of low molecular mass molecules, these channels contribute to tissue …

Amelioration of experimental metabolic syndrome induced in rats by orlistat and Corchorus olitorius leaf extract; role of adipo/cytokines

AA Gomaa, DA El-Sers, NI Al-Zokeim… - Journal of Pharmacy …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objectives To determine the efficacy of Corchorus olitorius (C. olitorius) leaf extract in the
prevention of metabolic syndrome induced in rats by high-fat diet (HFD) and compare it with …

Effects of Piper nigrum extracts: Restorative perspectives of high-fat diet-induced changes on lipid profile, body composition, and hormones in Sprague–Dawley rats

BN Parim, N Harishankar, M Balaji… - Pharmaceutical …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Context: Piper nigrum Linn (Piperaceae)(PnL) is used in traditional medicine to
treat gastric ailments, dyslipidemia, diabetes, and hypertension. Objective: The present …

Indole-and pyrazole-glycyrrhetinic acid derivatives as PTP1B inhibitors: Synthesis, in vitro and in silico studies

L De-la-Cruz-Martínez, C Duran-Becerra… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Regulating insulin and leptin levels using a protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B)
inhibitor is an attractive strategy to treat diabetes and obesity. Glycyrrhetinic acid (GA), a …