For patients with chronic viral hepatitis, clinicians instinctively rely on liver enzyme measurements to estimate disease activity and assess need for liver biopsy or antiviral treatment. Although ...

Your liver plays a vital role in your metabolism, the biological process which converts food into energy. We know that being overweight can negatively affect metabolic activity, but not exactly how.

Many individuals assume that if their weight is normal and routine tests are within limits, their liver must be healthy. Unfortunately, this is not always true. A normal weight does not necessarily ...

Daily sweets may silently raise fatty liver risk even without obesity. Here’s how excess sugar harms your liver and early warning signs to watch.

Many people discover they have fatty liver disease during a routine health check-up. They walk into a clinic for a regular ...

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and the unfolded protein response are often implicated in the progression of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), from simple steatosis ...

An illustration of the results of the trans-omic analysis. Allosteric regulation, which controls metabolism, decreased in typical mice during feeding (thin blue arrow, left) and increased during ...