ArticleAdipocyte2021
Association of cell death mechanisms and fibrosis in visceral white adipose tissue with pathological alterations in the liver of morbidly obese patients with NAFLD.
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- How Adipocytes Orchestrate Inflammation Within Adipose Tissue?Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Adipocyte death promotes hepatic infiltration of S100A8+ macrophages and steatotic liver disease progression in mice.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025Article
- Is Adipose Tissue Inflammation the Culprit of Obesity-Associated Comorbidities?Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Review
- Ellagic Acid Modulates Necroptosis, Autophagy, Inflammations, and Stress to Ameliorate Nonalcoholic Liver Fatty Disease in a Rat Model.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Necroptosis contributes to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease pathoetiology with promising diagnostic and therapeutic functions.World journal of gastroenterology · 2024Review
- Challenges and opportunities in obesity: the role of adipocytes during tissue fibrosis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Review
- The role of SPARC (secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine) in the pathogenesis of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.Journal of physiology and biochemistry · 2023Review
- Chronic Inflammation-A Link between Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and Dysfunctional Adipose Tissue.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Review
- The shades of grey in adipose tissue reprogramming.Bioscience reports · 2022Review
- Assessing Obesity-Related Adipose Tissue Disease (OrAD) to Improve Precision Medicine for Patients Living With Obesity.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Review
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Abstract
The role of visceral white adipose tissue (vWAT) in the progression of non-alcoholic liver disease (NAFLD) with its sub entities non-alcoholic fatty liver and steatohepatitis (NAFL; NASH) is underinvestigated. We thus explored mechanisms of fibrosis and regulated cell death in vWAT and liver tissue. In NAFLD, women displayed significantly more fibrosis in vWAT than men, and collagen 1α mRNA expression was significantly upregulated. The degrees of fibrosis in vWAT and liver tissue correlated significantly. The size of vWAT-resident adipocytes in NAFLD correlated negatively with the local degree of fibrosis. The extent of apoptosis, as measured by circulating M30, positively correlated with the degree of fibrosis in vWAT; necrosis-associated HMGB1 mRNA expression was significantly downregulated in vWAT and liver tissue; (iii) necroptosis-related RIPK-3 mRNA expression was significantly upregulated in vWAT; and autophagy-related LC3 mRNA expression was significantly downregulated in vWAT, while upregulated in the liver. Thus, the different cell death mechanisms in the vWAT in NAFLD are regulated independently while not ruling out their interaction. Fibrosis in vWAT may be associated with reduced adipocyte size and thus partially protective against NAFLD progression.
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