Fatty liver

Establishment of a hepatocyte steatosis model using Chang liver cells

D. Yan, Dou, Q. L., Wang, Z., and Wei, Y. Y., “Establishment of a hepatocyte steatosis model using Chang liver cells”, vol. 14, pp. 15224-15232, 2015.

The objective of this study was to explore the experimental conditions for hepatocellular steatosis models of Chang liver cells induced by oleic acid (OA). For that, Chang liver cells were induced by different concentrations of OA for different periods. The MTT assay was used to detect hepatic cell activity, the Oil Red O staining was used to observe intracellular lipid droplets accumulation, and the glycerol phosphate oxidase method was used to detect the triglyceride (TG) content in the Chang liver cell.

Molecular characterization, tissue expression, and polymorphism analysis of liver-type fatty acid binding protein in Landes geese

Z. Song, Shao, D., Sun, X. X., Niu, J. W., and Gong, D. Q., “Molecular characterization, tissue expression, and polymorphism analysis of liver-type fatty acid binding protein in Landes geese”, vol. 14, pp. 389-399, 2015.

Liver weight is an important economic trait in the fatty goose liver industry. Liver-type fatty acid binding protein (L-FABP) is involved in the formation and metabolism of fatty acids. Thus, we hypothesized that sequence polymorphisms in L-FABP were associated with fatty liver weight in goose. We first isolated, sequenced, and characterized the goose L-FABP gene, which had not been previously reported. The goose L-FABP gene was 2490 bp and included 4 exons coding for a 126-amino acid protein.

Hypolipidemic effect of safflower yellow and primary mechanism analysis

L. D. Bao, Wang, Y., Ren, X. H., Ma, R. L., Lv, H. J., and Agula, B., “Hypolipidemic effect of safflower yellow and primary mechanism analysis”, vol. 14, pp. 6270-6278, 2015.

We examined the hypolipidemic effect of safflower yellow (SY) on hyperlipidemic mice and its influence on the biological synthesis of cholesterol in cells. Over 4 weeks, the levels of total cholesterol, triglyceride, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in serum were detected using a kit; mouse liver samples were acquired for paraffin sections, and mouse liver cells were observed under light microscope.

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