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ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2014

Ethanol and liver: recent insights into the mechanisms of ethanol-induced fatty liver.

Jinyao Liu

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Review in World journal of gastroenterology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 128 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Hepatoprotective Effect ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  20. Association of Muscle Strength with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Korean Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jinyao LiuJinyao Liu, Department of Legal Medicine, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8505, Japan.
Yamaguchi University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alcoholic fatty liver disease (AFLD), a potentially pathologic condition, can progress to steatohepatitis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis, leading to an increased probability of hepatic failure and death. Alcohol induces fatty liver by increasing the ratio of reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide to oxidized form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in hepatocytes; increasing hepatic sterol regulatory element-binding protein (SREBP)-1, plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI)-1, and early growth response-1 activity; and decreasing hepatic peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α activity. Alcohol activates the innate immune system and induces an imbalance of the immune response, which is followed by activated Kupffer cell-derived tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α overproduction, which is in turn responsible for the changes in the hepatic SREBP-1 and PAI-1 activity. Alcohol abuse promotes the migration of bone marrow-derived cells (BMDCs) to the liver and then reprograms TNF-α expression from BMDCs. Chronic alcohol intake triggers the sympathetic hyperactivity-activated hepatic stellate cell (HSC) feedback loop that in turn activates the HSCs, resulting in HSC-derived TNF-α overproduction. Carvedilol may block this feedback loop by suppressing sympathetic activity, which attenuates the progression of AFLD. Clinical studies evaluating combination therapy of carvedilol with a TNF-α inhibitor to treat patients with AFLD are warranted to prevent the development of alcoholic liver disease.

Indexed as

Alcohol DrinkingAnimalsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsCarbazolesCarvedilolEthanolFatty Liver, AlcoholicGene Expression RegulationHumansInflammation MediatorsLipid MetabolismLiverPrognosisPropanolaminesRisk FactorsSignal TransductionAnti-Inflammatory AgentsCarbazolesCarvedilolEthanolInflammation MediatorsPropanolaminesTranscription FactorsTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaAlcoholAlcoholic liver diseaseBone marrow-derived cellFatty liverHepatic stellate cellTumor necrosis factor-α

Identifiers

PMID25356030
PMCPMC4209533
OpenAlexW2066972150

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