Functional Relationships between Lipid Metabolism and Liver Regeneration
Open Access
- 1 January 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in International Journal of Hepatology
- Vol. 2012, 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/549241
Abstract
The regenerative capacity of the liver is well known, and the mechanisms that regulate this process have been extensively studied using experimental model systems including surgical resection and hepatotoxin exposure. The response to primary mitogens has also been used to investigate the regulation of hepatocellular proliferation. Such analyses have identified many specific cytokines and growth factors, intracellular signaling events, and transcription factors that are regulated during and necessary for normal liver regeneration. Nevertheless, the nature and identities of the most proximal events that initiate hepatic regeneration as well as those distal signals that terminate this process remain unknown. Here, we review the data implicating acute alterations in lipid metabolism as important determinants of experimental liver regeneration and propose a novel metabolic model of regeneration based on these data. We also discuss the association between chronic hepatic steatosis and impaired regeneration in animal models and humans and consider important areas for future research.Keywords
Funding Information
- Digestive Disease Research Core Center (DK-52574, HL-38180, DK-56260)
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