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Obesity and Diabetes Genetics

Researchers from Medical School detail new studies and findings in the area of obesity and diabetes genetics

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, October 19th, 2009

A new study, 'Roles of adipose restriction and metabolic factors in progression of steatosis to steatohepatitis in obese, diabetic mice,' is now available. "We previously reported that steatohepatitis develops in obese, hypercholesterolemic, diabetic foz/foz mice fed a high-fat (HF) diet for 12 months. We now report earlier onset of steatohepatitis in relation to metabolic abnormalities, and clarify the roles of dietary fat and bodily lipid partitioning on steatosis severity, liver injury and inflammatory recruitment in this novel non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) model," scientists writing in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology report.

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