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ReviewCells2020

Playing Jekyll and Hyde-The Dual Role of Lipids in Fatty Liver Disease.

Martijn R Molenaar, Louis C Penning, J Bernd Helms

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Review in Cells, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Lipid Droplet Dynamics in Alcoholic Steatohepatitis.The American journal of pathology · 2026
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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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Martijn R MolenaarDepartment of Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, 3584 CM, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5221-608X
Louis C PenningDepartment of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, 3584 CM, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
J Bernd HelmsDepartment of Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, 3584 CM, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-7311-3821
Utrecht University · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipids play Jekyll and Hyde in the liver. On the one hand, the lipid-laden status of hepatic stellate cells is a hallmark of healthy liver. On the other hand, the opposite is true for lipid-laden hepatocytes-they obstruct liver function. Neglected lipid accumulation in hepatocytes can progress into hepatic fibrosis, a condition induced by the activation of stellate cells. In their resting state, these cells store substantial quantities of fat-soluble vitamin A (retinyl esters) in large lipid droplets. During activation, these lipid organelles are gradually degraded. Hence, treatment of fatty liver disease is treading a tightrope-unsophisticated targeting of hepatic lipid accumulation might trigger problematic side effects on stellate cells. Therefore, it is of great importance to gain more insight into the highly dynamic lipid metabolism of hepatocytes and stellate cells in both quiescent and activated states. In this review, part of the special issue entitled "Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms underlying the Pathogenesis of Hepatic Fibrosis 2020", we discuss current and highly versatile aspects of neutral lipid metabolism in the pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Indexed as

Hepatic Stellate CellsHumansLipid MetabolismNon-alcoholic Fatty Liver DiseaseDGAT2hepatic stellate cellshepatocyteslipid dropletslipid metabolismnon-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Identifiers

PMID33036257
PMCPMC7601321
OpenAlexW3092018723

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