There are no approvedtherapeuticdrugs for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis(NASH)due to the many bottlenecks,including the lack of preclinical animal models that can perfectly mimic human NASH features,such as systemic met...There are no approvedtherapeuticdrugs for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis(NASH)due to the many bottlenecks,including the lack of preclinical animal models that can perfectly mimic human NASH features,such as systemic metabolic disorders,hepatic steatosis,intense liver inflammation and fibrosis,liver tumorigenesis,and cardiovascularcomplications.i,2"Pigment"epitheliumderived factor(PEDF)is a lipid metabolism regulator with high expression in the liver,and its reduced expression in the liver is closely related to the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD).展开更多
基金funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2019YFA0801403)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81670256,81970219,82170261,82000250,81741117)+2 种基金Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(China)(No.2021A1515011005,2021B1212040006)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2020M672976)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central University,Sun Yat-sen University,China(No.22qntd4808).
文摘There are no approvedtherapeuticdrugs for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis(NASH)due to the many bottlenecks,including the lack of preclinical animal models that can perfectly mimic human NASH features,such as systemic metabolic disorders,hepatic steatosis,intense liver inflammation and fibrosis,liver tumorigenesis,and cardiovascularcomplications.i,2"Pigment"epitheliumderived factor(PEDF)is a lipid metabolism regulator with high expression in the liver,and its reduced expression in the liver is closely related to the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD).