A high-cholesterol diet promotes steatohepatitis and liver tumorigenesis in HCV core gene transgenic mice.

In conclusion, these results demonstrate that a high-cholesterol diet facilitates liver tumorigenesis by inducing steatohepatitis, promoting hepatocyte division, and up-regulating cellular stress and pro-inflammatory NF-κB and detoxifying p62/Sqstm1-NRF2 signals. Therefore, high dietary cholesterol should be avoided in HCV-infected patients to prevent development of steatohepatitis, liver fibrosis, and HCC. PMID: 31004178 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Archives of Toxicology - Category: Toxicology Authors: Tags: Arch Toxicol Source Type: research