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ReviewHepatology (Baltimore, Md.)2015

Hepatic lipid droplet biology: Getting to the root of fatty liver.

Douglas G Mashek, Salmaan A Khan, Aishwarya Sathyanarayan, Jonathan M Ploeger, Mallory P Franklin

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In one paragraph

Review in Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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69citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

69 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  12. Targeting Seipin to Alleviate Hepatic Steatosis in Zebrafish (Danio Rerio).Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Douglas G MashekDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.
Salmaan A KhanDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.
Aishwarya SathyanarayanDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.
Jonathan M PloegerDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.
Mallory P FranklinDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.

Funding

Minnesota Obesity Prevention Training (MnOPT)T32DK083250 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI KOTZ, CATHERINE M, LASKA, MELISSA N. · 2010 to 2024
$5.1M
Role of ATGL in lipid droplet and nuclear lipidomesR01DK090364 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI MASHEK, DOUGLAS G · 2011 to 2015
$1.8M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK090364NIDDK NIH HHS R01DK090364NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK083250
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatic steatosis is defined by the accumulation of lipid droplets (LDs). Once thought to be only inert energy storage depots, LDs are increasingly recognized as organelles that have important functions in hepatocytes beyond lipid storage. The lipid and protein composition of LDs is highly dynamic and influences their intrinsic metabolism and signaling properties, which ultimately links them to the changes in hepatic function. This concise review highlights recent discoveries in LD biology and unique aspects of hepatic LDs and their role in liver disease.

Indexed as

Disease ProgressionFatty LiverHumansLipid DropletsLipid MetabolismLiver Function TestsPrognosis

Identifiers

PMID25854913
PMCPMC4549163

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