Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is the potentially progressive form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). NAFLD and NASH are very common in most regions world on trajectory to become at a global scale. Risk for high prevalence progressiveness include visceral obesity Type 2 diabetes. The conundrum related rapid increase its burden with low awareness among general providers, as well...

Article history: Received on: 02/06/2017 Accepted on: 15/07/2017 Available online: 30/09/2017 Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate the neuro-protective and hepato-protective activity of melatonin (MLN) on non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in albino rats induced by methionine and choline deficient (MCD) diet. Material and Methods: To achieve this aim, rats were fed MCD diet for 8 we...

INTRODUCTION Non-alcoholic (NAFLD) encompasses a spectrum of disease states, from steatosis (fatty liver) to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (also called NASH steatosis with inflammatory changes) followed by progression to fibrosis and cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma Excess liver fat is believed to be a manifestation of the metabolic syndrome and not surprisingly NASH is associated with ob...

Among heavy drinkers with liver disease, the development of severe alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is a serious complication. Prognosis is grave and associated with a high mortality due to liver failure, hepatorenal syndrome or intractable sepsis. Clinically, AH presents as a syndrome of progressive inflammatory liver injury in patients with recent or ongoing heavy alcohol consumption. Although approx...

1Division of Gastroenterology, Ospedale di Acireale, Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale di Catania, Catania, Italy 2Liver Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel 3School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel 4Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnologies, University of Catania, Catania, Italy 5Center for Human Nutrition and Atkins Center...

This review showed the common pathogenic mechanism in the development of non-alcoholic or alcoholic steatohepatitis. In particular, we describe the role of innate immune system and oxidative stress caused by gut-derived endotoxin. Gut-derived endotoxin plays an important role in alcoholic liver injury. It was reported that acute ethanol administration reduced activation of Kupffer cells. It is ...

Over the past decades, many drugs have been identified, that can potentially induce steatohepatitis in the predisposed individual. Classically this has been incriminated to amiodarone, perhexiline, and 4,4'-diethylaminoethoxyhexestrol (DH), all of which have been found to independently induce the histologic picture of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Pathogenetic mechanisms of hepatotoxici...