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A simple diet- and chemical-induced murine NASH model with rapid progression of steatohepatitis, fibrosis and liver cancer

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Tsuchida, Takuma, Lee, Youngmin A., Fujiwara, Naoto, Ybanez, Maria, Allen, Brittany, Martins, Sebastiao, Fiel, M. Isabel, Goossens, Nicolas +3 more·2018·Journal of Hepatology

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Background and Aims Although the majority of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have only steatosis without progression, a sizeable fraction develop non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which can lead to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Many established diet-induced mouse models for NASH require 24–52 weeks, which makes testing for drug response costly and time consuming. Methods We have sought to establish a murine NASH model with rapid progression of extensive fibrosis and HCC by using a western diet (WD), which is high-fat, high-fructose and high-cholesterol, combined with low weekly dose of intraperitoneal carbon tetrachloride (CCl 4 ), which serves as an accelerator. Results C57BL/6J mice were fed a normal chow diet ± CCl 4 or WD ± CCl 4 for 12 and 24 weeks. Addition of CCl 4 exacerbated histological features of NASH, fibrosis, and tumor development induced by WD, which resulted in stage 3 fibrosis at 12 weeks and HCC development at 24 weeks. Furthermore, whole liver transcriptomic analysis indicated that dysregulated molecular pathways in WD/CCl 4 mice and immunologic features were similar to those of human NASH. Conclusions Our mouse NASH model exhibits rapid progression of advanced fibrosis and HCC, and mimics histological, immunological and transcriptomic features of human NASH, suggesting that it will be a useful experimental tool for preclinical drug testing. Lay summary A carefully characterized model has been developed in mice that recapitulates the progressive stages of human fatty liver disease, from simple steatosis, to inflammation, fibrosis and cancer. The functional pathways of gene expression and immune abnormalities in this model closely resemble human disease. The ease and reproducibility of this model make it ideal to study disease pathogenesis and test new treatments.

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  • Sustained myofibroblast activation in chronic liver disease drives fibrosis, especially in MASH, where myofibroblasts are detectable by desmin and αSMA immunofluorescence and by single-cell RNA-seq gene expression.

    “These functions normally contribute to tissue repair under homeostatic conditions, but sustained activation in chronic liver diseases drives fibrosis, especially in MASH (41) where they are detectable by expression of desmin and alpha smooth muscle actin (αSMA) using immunofluorescence, and by conservation of gene expression based on single-cell RNA-seq (42-46).”
  • The FAT-MASH mouse robustly develops fibrosis and tumors after 24 weeks of a Western diet combined with a small weekly dose of CCl4.

    “Our laboratory uses a simple rodent model of MASH, the “FAT-MASH” mouse, which robustly develops Fibrosis and Tumors, features of advanced disease, after 24 weeks of a Western diet combined with a small weekly dose of the liver toxin CCl4 (45).”

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Tsuchida, T., Lee, Y. A., Fujiwara, N., Ybanez, M., Allen, B., Martins, S., Fiel, M. I., Goossens, N., Chou, H.-I., Hoshida, Y., & Friedman, S. L.
Affiliations
  • Tanabe Pharma Corporation (Japan) (JP)
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • Mount Sinai Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
Friedman, Scott L.
Venue
Journal of Hepatology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-08
Volume
69
Issue
2
Pages
385-395
ISSN
0168-8278 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2790198401
Cited by
583
References
56
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FWCI
30.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Update notices
erratum (2018-10-01)
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  • Journal of Hepatology (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • NIH
  • NIDDK (DK099558)
  • European Commission (ERC-2014-AdG-671231)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Hepatology › Liver physiology and pathology
  • Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Pharmacology › Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection
Keywords
nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, mouse model, Western diet, carbon tetrachloride, liver fibrosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver transcriptome, immune abnormalities, preclinical drug testing
MeSH terms
Animals, Carbon Tetrachloride, Disease Models, Animal, Fatty Liver, Inflammation, Liver Cirrhosis, Liver Neoplasms, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Reproducibility of Results, Disease Progression, Gene Expression Profiling, Mice, Diet, Western

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