Dietary sucrose is essential to the development of liver injury in the methionine-choline-deficient model of steatohepatitis[S]
Methionine-choline-deficient (MCD) diets cause steatohepatitis in rodents and are used to study the pathophysiology of fatty liver disease in human beings. The most widely used commercial MCD formulas not only lack methionine and choline but also contain excess sucrose and fat. The objective of this...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2009-10-01
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| Series: | Journal of Lipid Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002222752030715X |