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Article: Antioxidant defense mechanisms stem non-alcoholic steatohepatitis progression.
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- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- May 15, 2004
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2004 MAY 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antioxidant defense mechanisms stem non-alcoholic steatohepatitis progression.
"This comment discusses the study by Videla and colleagues in this issue of Clinical Science in which they have analyzed surgical liver biopsies from obese patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and demonstrate that fatty liver is associated with a state of oxidative stress and a decreased antioxidant activity," according to published research from Belgium.
"As the disease progresses to steatohepatitis, the defect in antioxidant systems increases," according to I.A. Leclercq and colleagues, Catholic University of Louvain, ...