High fat diet overfeeding promotes non-detrimental liver steatosis in female mice.

This study suggests that enterohepatic circulation of bile acids might be one of the factors that can affect sex dimorphism in NAFLD development, which underlines the importance of including female models in NAFLD research field. PMID: 30095299 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30095299?dopt=Abstract

Source: American Journal of Physiology. Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology - August 10, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Arisqueta L, Navarro-Imaz H, Labiano I, Rueda Y, Fresnedo O Tags: Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol Source Type: research