Non-alcoholic Liver Injury
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 77751
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hepatitis C, B, HIV, and other viral hepatitis; alcohol-associated liver disease; innate immunity; antigen presentation; proteasome; protein posttranslational modifications; animal models for a hepatitis study; long-acting drugs
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Interests: steatosis; copper; epigenetics; DNA methylation; Wilson Disease
Interests: alcohol-associated liver disease and metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease: pathogenesis and treatment modality; methylation defects
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Non-alcoholic liver injury is a liver disease of various etiologies which are not induced by chronic alcohol abuse. The main histological features are fat accumulation, steatohepatitis and progression to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and HCC. Usually, this liver disease is associated with diabetes, dyslipidemia, bile acid metabolism dysfunctions and pro-inflammatory liver phenotype. These changes may be due to metabolic abnormalities programmed at genetic level or triggered by extrinsic factors, including chronic infections with hepatotropic viruses and HIV.
For this Special issue, we encourage the submission of manuscripts on any aspects of non-alcoholic liver injury, its etiology, pathogenesis, multiple organs/tissues-liver axis, progression to end-stage liver disease and treatment. We accept reviews, conference proceedings, short- and full-size research papers, which cover the aforementioned subjects.
Prof. Dr. Natalia Osna
Prof. Dr. Valentina Medici
Prof. Dr. Kusum Kharbanda
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
- hepatotropic infections
- pathogenesis
- treatment
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