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Researchers at the U of A College of Medicine – Phoenix develop a first-in-class peptide therapy to disrupt a key protein interaction driving liver scarring A promising new therapy developed at the University …
Read guide →Introduction Peptides are short, variable-length amino acid (AA) chains connected by peptide bonds. They are considered as effective AA sources owing to their higher in vivo absorption than AA monomers. These …
Read guide →Rutgers researchers discover hormone has therapeutic effects on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in mouse study A hormone that triggers puberty and controls fertility in humans might be developed as a treatme…
Read guide →Introduction Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), recently renamed steatotic liver disease, is a chronic condition characterised by an accumulation of ectopic lipids in the liver parenchyma, accounting f…
Read guide →Fatty liver is a very common disease worldwide (it affects 25-30% of the population) and can have important repercussions on the liver, such as the development of cirrhosis and cancer, and on other organs (car…
Read guide →Abstract PGPIPN is a therapeutic hexapeptide derived from bovine β-casein. Here we investigated the role and mechanism of this peptide on alcoholic fatty liver disease (AFLD). We took human hepatic cell line L…
Read guide →Your liver handles over 500 functions every day. It filters toxins, metabolizes drugs, produces bile, stores energy, and synthesizes proteins your blood needs to clot. When it gets damaged — by alcohol, medica…
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