{"id":174753,"date":"2023-10-26T01:27:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T06:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/researchers-uncover-mechanism-for-treating-dangerous-liver-condition"},"modified":"2023-10-26T01:27:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T06:27:51","slug":"researchers-uncover-mechanism-for-treating-dangerous-liver-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/researchers-uncover-mechanism-for-treating-dangerous-liver-condition","title":{"rendered":"Researchers uncover mechanism for treating dangerous liver condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-mechanism-for-treating-dangerous-liver-condition3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study spearheaded by Oregon State University has shown why certain polyunsaturated fatty acids work to combat a dangerous liver condition, opening a new avenue of drug research for a disease that currently has no FDA-approved medications.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists led by Oregon State\u2019s Natalia Shulzhenko, Andrey Morgun and Donald Jump used a technique known as multi-omic network analysis to identify the mechanism through which dietary omega 3 supplements alleviated nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, usually abbreviated to NASH.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanism involves betacellulin, a protein growth factor that plays multiple positive roles in the body but also contributes to <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/liver+fibrosis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">liver fibrosis<\/a>, or scarring, and the progression to cirrhosis and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/liver+cancer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">liver cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study spearheaded by Oregon State University has shown why certain polyunsaturated fatty acids work to combat a dangerous liver condition, opening a new avenue of drug research for a disease that currently has no FDA-approved medications. Scientists led by Oregon State\u2019s Natalia Shulzhenko, Andrey Morgun and Donald Jump used a technique known as multi-omic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}