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Metronidazole enhances steatosis-related early-stage hepatocarcinogenesis in high fat diet-fed rats through DNA double-strand breaks and modulation of autophagy
2021-03-11
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is a hepatic disorder with deposition of fat droplets, and has a high risk of progression to steatosis-related hepatitis and irreversible hepatic cancer. Metronidazole (MNZ) is an antiprotozoal and antimicrobial agent widely used to treat patients infected with anaerobic bacteria and intestinal parasites; however, MNZ has also been shown to induce liver...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5fbb4ce8-e725-53fb-b960-37a7fd7f2a1e
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-160304/v1
