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ArticleJHEP reports : innovation in hepatology2025

From model to man: Understanding Tregs' dual role in MASLD.

Janine Dywicki, Laura Elisa Buitrago-Molina, Anna K Baumann, Ana C Davalos-Misslitz, Celina M Hendriks, Katharina L Hupa-Breier, Maren Lieber, Jerome Schlue, Matthias Blüher, Heike Bantel and 10 more

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Article in JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Janine DywickiDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Laura Elisa Buitrago-MolinaDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Anna K BaumannDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Ana C Davalos-MisslitzDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Celina M HendriksDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Katharina L Hupa-BreierDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Maren LieberDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Jerome SchlueInst. of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Matthias BlüherDept. of Endocrinology and Nephrology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Heike BantelDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Christine S FalkInst. of Transplant Immunology, IFB-Tx, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Christian KoeneckeInst. of Immunology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Freya WellhönerDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Benjamin HeidrichDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Michael P MannsDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Fatih NoyanDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Heiner WedemeyerDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Richard TaubertDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Elmar JaeckelDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.
Matthias Hardtke-WolenskiDept. of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Disease and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background & Aims: Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) affects around 30% of the world's population and is often associated with metabolic conditions such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension. Approximately 10-20% of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease cases progress to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH), which significantly increases the risk of liver cancer. While intrahepatic immune responses involving CD4+ and CD8+ T cells are potential therapeutic targets, their role in the pathogenesis of MASH is not fully understood. Regulatory T cells (Tregs), whose involvement has been controversial, require further investigation. Methods: In this study, we investigated the impact of adaptive immunity on MASH using a high-fat/high-carbohydrate diet (HF-HCD) model in wild-type and Results: Our results showed that HF-HCD induced glucose intolerance and MASH, independent of adaptive immunity. Surprisingly, HF-HCD increased intrahepatic Treg numbers and the Treg/Teff ratio but did not alleviate the disease; instead, this increase correlated with greater disease severity. With progressing metabolic inflammation, an increased proportion of Tregs also expressed IL-17, which correlated with more severe liver pathology. Conclusions: The observed expansion of Tregs and the resulting increase in the Treg/Teff ratio did not protect against MASH but correlated with more severe disease in both mice and humans, consistent with a pro-inflammatory shift towards IL-17-producing (T Impact and implications: Diet-induced steatohepatitis can develop without adaptive immunity, yet IL-17A-expressing Foxp3

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Adaptive immunityClonal T cell expansionFoxp3ImmunometabolismKupffer cellsMASHMonocyte-derived macrophagesRegulatory T cellsT-cell receptor repertoire

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PMID41362710
PMCPMC12682130

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