Dr. D. Beard

Recent clinical evidence suggests that NAFLD is directly associated with an increased risk of cardio-metabolic disorders. This mini review describes briefly the current understanding of the pathogenesis of NAFLD, summarizing the link....

This original study demonstrated that microRNA-21 is overexpressed in the liver of patients with NASH, but not in those with bland steatosis. Liver microRNA-21 in NASH is primarily expressed in inflammatory and biliary cells. Using different mouse models of NASH, authors demonstrated that microRNA-21 contributes to key features of NASH, i.e. cell injury...

This article highlights the importance of the recent study by Grohmann et al. published in the November, 2018 issue of Cell. It contributes to the understanding of molecular mechanisms which relate obesity with NASH and HCC. This study...

Reports of NAFLD in patients as young as 2 years of age have been documented. It tends to be more common in children who are obese but has been known to occur in patients who have normal weight. Children with NAFLD are at increased...

Previous cross-sectional studies revealed that short sleep duration has a close relationship with the presence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). This historical cohort study of 12,306 participants is the first study...

Supersonic shear imaging (SSI) is a relatively new technique to measure the elasticity of target tissues based on the shear wave propagation. In this study, J. Yang et al. aimed to evaluate the value of SSI in discriminating NASH...

F. Savari et al. studied the effect of fructose, fat-rich and Western diet feeding along with aggravative effect of cigarette smoking on liver status in 64 male mice. The mice were assigned into 4 groups that fed standard...

The burden of liver-related morbidity remains high among HIV-infected patients, with a prevalence of up to 50%. The pathogenesis of NAFLD and the reasons for progression to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are still...

Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) are highly specialized endothelial cells localized at the interface between the blood derived from the gut and the adipose tissue on the one side, and other liver cells on the other side...

In this review, the authors discuss the mechanisms of LXR in NASH and summarize the natural products reported to modulate NAFLD via LXR or the LXR pathway, offering an alternative approach for LXR-related drug development...