Bani Mukhopadhyay, Cheryl Marietta, Pei-Hong Shen, Abdul Oiseni, Faridoddin Mirshahi, Maria Mazzu, Colin Hodgkinson, Eli Winkler, Qiaoping Yuan, Daniel Miranda, George Kunos, Arun J Sanyal, David Goldman
Only ~20% of heavy drinkers develop alcohol cirrhosis (AC). While differences in metabolism, inflammation, signaling, microbiome signatures and genetic variations have been tied to the pathogenesis of AC, the key underlying mechanisms for this interindividual variability, remain to be fully elucidated. Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatocytes (iHLCs) from patients with AC and healthy controls differ transcriptomically, bioenergetically and histologically. They include a greater number of lipid droplets (LDs) and LD-associated mitochondria compared to control cells...
May 1, 2024: Nature Communications