ArticleIranian journal of basic medical sciences2020
The role of acylated ghrelin and unacylated ghrelin in the blood and hypothalamus and their interaction with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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- Circulating acyl and des-acyl ghrelin levels in obese adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- The Pathophysiological Interrelationship Between Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Cardiovascular Disease.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Proteomic Profiling of Plasma to Uncover Novel Intervention Targets and Prognostic Biomarkers for Chronic Liver Diseases.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2026Article
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- Changes in Circulating Acylated Ghrelin and Neutrophil Elastase in Diabetic Retinopathy.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Unacylated ghrelin attenuates acute liver injury and hyperlipidemia via its anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative activities.Iranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2024Article
- Growth hormone releasing peptide-6 (GHRP-6) prevents doxorubicin-induced myocardial and extra-myocardial damages by activating prosurvival mechanisms.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- [A study of the anti-fibrotic effect of ghrelin on mice with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2023Article
- Hunger & satiety signals: another key mechanism involved in the NAFLD pathway.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Review
- Role of the Ghrelin System in Colitis and Hepatitis as Risk Factors for Inflammatory-Related Cancers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Intracerebroventricular injection of ghrelin receptor antagonist alleviated NAFLD via improving hypothalamic insulin resistance.Iranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2022Article
- Chronic Inflammation-A Link between Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and Dysfunctional Adipose Tissue.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Review
- Inflammation initiates a vicious cycle between obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2021Review
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Abstract
objectivesGhrelin is a brain-gut peptide involved in substance and energy metabolism. To confirm the hypothesis that ghrelin might be involved in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a rat NAFLD model was established and the changes of ghrelin were explored. MATERIALS AND
methodsThe rats were divided into control and NAFLD groups. The rats in the NAFLD group were fed a high-fat-high-cholesterol (HFHC) diet for 8 weeks. Total ghrelin (TG), acylated ghrelin (AG), unacylated ghrelin (UAG), and hypothalamic AG and its receptor GHSR-1a expression were detected using ELISA, RIA, RT-PCR, and Western blot, respectively.
resultsPlasma UAG, TG, and the ratio of UAG to AG (UAG/AG) decreased, while protein and mRNA expression of hypothalamic AG and growth hormone secretagogue receptor-1a (GHSR-1a) increased in NAFLD (
conclusionIt might be that decreased circulating UAG/AG, rather than UAG or AG alone, were involved in IR and liver lipid accumulation in NAFLD. Acylated ghrelin might induce IR and promote liver lipid accumulation via a central mechanism involved in the hypothalamus.
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