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Metabolic drivers of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Molecular metabolism - 1 Aug 2021
Bence Kendra K, Birnbaum Morris J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is rapidly increasing worldwide parallel to the global obesity epidemic. NAFLD encompasses a range of liver pathologies and most often originates from metabolically driven accumulation of fat in the liver, or non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL). In a subset of NAFL patients, the disease can progress to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which...
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