Introduction: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most widespread chronic liver disease in the world. It can evolve into nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) where inflammation and hepatocyte ballooning are key participants in the determination of this steatotic state.Areas covered: To provide a systematic overview and current understanding of the role of inflammation in NAFLD and its progression to NASH, the function of the cells involved, and the activation pathways of the innate immunity and cell death; resulting in inflammation and chronic liver disease. A PubMed search was made with relevant articles together with relevant references were included for the writing of this review.Expert opinion: Innate and adaptive immunity are the key players in the NAFLD progression; some of the markers presented during NAFLD are also known to be immunity biomarkers. All cells involved in NAFLD and NASH are known to have immunoregulatory properties and their imbalance will completely change the cytokine profile and form a pro-inflammatory microenvironment. It is necessary to fully answer the question of what initiators and metabolic imbalances are particularly important, considering sterile inflammation as the architect of the disease. Due to the shortage of elucidation of NASH progression, we discuss in this review, how inflammation is a key part of this development and we presume the targets should lead to inflammation and oxidative stress treatment.
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- adaptivní imunita imunologie MeSH
- hepatocyty imunologie fyziologie MeSH
- interakce mezi receptory a ligandy imunologie fyziologie MeSH
- Kupfferovy buňky imunologie MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- lymfocyty imunologie MeSH
- nealkoholová steatóza jater imunologie patofyziologie MeSH
- oxidační stres imunologie MeSH
- přirozená imunita imunologie MeSH
- progrese nemoci MeSH
- regulovaná buněčná smrt imunologie fyziologie MeSH
- zánět imunologie patofyziologie MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- přehledy MeSH
- Klíčová slova
- etóza, netóza,
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- apoptóza fyziologie MeSH
- autofagie fyziologie MeSH
- buněčná smrt * fyziologie MeSH
- kaspasy MeSH
- lidé MeSH
- nekroptóza fyziologie MeSH
- nekróza MeSH
- pyroptóza fyziologie MeSH
- regulovaná buněčná smrt fyziologie MeSH
- zánět patofyziologie patologie MeSH
- Check Tag
- lidé MeSH
- Publikační typ
- přehledy MeSH
