Mouse model of NASH that replicates key features of the human disease and progresses to fibrosis stage 3
Kristy St. Rose, Jun Yan, Fangxi Xu, Jasmine Williams, Virginia Dweck, Deepak Saxena, Robert F. Schwabe, Jorge Matias Caviglia – 2 August 2022 – Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disease in the United States and the world; with no Food and Drug Administration–approved pharmacological treatment available, it remains an area of unmet medical need. In nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the most important predictor of clinical outcome is the fibrosis stage.