Studying non-alcoholic fatty liver disease with zebrafish: a confluence of optics, genetics, and physiology

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Obesity is a public health crisis. New methods for amelioration of its consequences are required because it is very unlikely that the social and economic factors driving it will be reversed. The pathological accumulation of neutral lipids in the liver (hepatic steatosis) is an obesity-related problem whose molecular underpinnings are unknown and whose effective treatment is lacking. Here I review how zebrafish, a...

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