ArticleNutrients2023
Intermittent Fasting Attenuates Metabolic-Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis by Enhancing the Hepatic Autophagy-Lysosome Pathway.
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- The effect of intermittent fasting on liver morphology in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A narrative review of animal studies and clinical trials.Histology and histopathology · 2026Review
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- Interplay Between Autophagy, Cellular Senescence, and Brain Aging: Neuroprotective Implications of Intermittent Fasting.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2026Review
- Repurposed metformin-apigenin combination therapy for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis: from integrative multi-omics discovery toFrontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- Alternate-day fasting increases the risk of decreased immune cells and anemia in DSS-induced colitis mice.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: A Silent Driver of Cardiovascular Risk and a New Target for Intervention.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Targeting Lipophagy in Liver Diseases: Impact on Oxidative Stress and Steatohepatitis.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Galectin-3 in Cardiovascular Health: A Narrative Review Based on Life's Essential 8 and Life's Simple 7 Frameworks.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
- Inverted day-night feeding during pregnancy affects the brain health of both maternal and fetal brains through increasing inflammation levels associated with dysbiosis of the gut microbiome in rats.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2025Article
- Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Liver Steatosis and Fibrosis, Serum FGF-21 and Autophagy Markers in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Dietary Influences on Gut Microbiota and Their Role in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD).Nutrients · 2024Review
- Updated mechanisms of MASLD pathogenesis.Lipids in health and disease · 2024Review
- Targeting ketone body metabolism to treat fatty liver disease.Journal of pharmacy & pharmaceutical sciences : a publication of the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Societe canadienne des sciences pharmaceutiques · 2024Review
- Autophagy and hepatic lipid metabolism: mechanistic insight and therapeutic potential for MASLD.npj metabolic health and disease · 2024Review
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Abstract
An intermittent fasting (IF) regimen has been shown to protect against metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH). However, the precise mechanism remains unclear. Here, we explored how IF reduced hepatic lipid accumulation, inflammation, and fibrosis in mice with MASH. The mice were fed a high-fat diet (HFD) for 30 weeks and either continued on the HFD or were subjected to IF for the final 22 weeks. IF reduced body weight, insulin resistance, and hepatic lipid accumulation in HFD-fed mice. Lipidome analysis revealed that IF modified HFD-induced hepatic lipid composition. In particular, HFD-induced impaired autophagic flux was reversed by IF. The decreased hepatic lysosome-associated membrane protein 1 level in HFD-fed mice was upregulated in HFD+IF-fed mice. However, increased hepatic lysosomal acid lipase protein levels in HFD-fed mice were reduced by IF. IF attenuated HFD-induced hepatic inflammation and galectin-3-positive Kupffer cells. In addition to the increases in hepatic hydroxyproline and lumican levels, lipocalin-2-mediated signaling was reversed in HFD-fed mice by IF. Taken together, our findings indicate that the enhancement of the autophagy-lysosomal pathway may be a critical mechanism of MASH reduction by IF.
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