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- Title
Autophagy: A Cellular Guardian against Hepatic Lipotoxicity.
- Authors
Sinha, Rohit Anthony
- Abstract
Lipotoxicity is a phenomenon of lipid-induced cellular injury in nonadipose tissue. Excess of free saturated fatty acids (SFAs) contributes to hepatic injury in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which has been growing at an unprecedented rate in recent years. SFAs and their derivatives such as ceramides and membrane phospholipids have been shown to induce intrahepatic oxidative damage and ER stress. Autophagy represents a cellular housekeeping mechanism to counter the perturbation in organelle function and activation of stress signals within the cell. Several aspects of autophagy, including lipid droplet assembly, lipophagy, mitophagy, redox signaling and ER-phagy, play a critical role in mounting a strong defense against lipotoxic lipid species within the hepatic cells. This review provides a succinct overview of our current understanding of autophagy–lipotoxicity interaction and its pharmacological and nonpharmacological modulation in treating NAFLD.
- Subjects
NON-alcoholic fatty liver disease; AUTOPHAGY; SATURATED fatty acids; FREE fatty acids; LIVER cells
- Publication
Genes, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 3, p553
- ISSN
2073-4425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/genes14030553