Obesity, Fatty Liver and Liver Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yu, Jun (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1061
• Subjects: Molecular biology.; Cancer research.; Hepatology.; Molecular Medicine.; Cancer Research.

This volume covers a state-of-the-art illustration of recent discoveries concerning obesity-related fatty liver diseases and liver cancer. The contents are extensive and comprehensive. It brings important topics in the field all together under one umbrella, from epidemiology and etiology, molecular...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Epidemiology and etiology of NAFLD and associated HCC
• Chapter 3. Pathogenesis of NASH: How metabolic complications of overnutrition favour lipotoxicity and pro-inflammatory fatty liver disease
• Chapter 4. Chemokines and Chemokine Receptors in the Development of NAFLD
• Chapter 5. NAFLD related-HCC: the relationship with metabolic disorders
• Chapter 6. Hepatocellular carcinoma in obesity: Finding a needle in the haystack?
• Chapter 7. Dysregulated epigenetic modifications in the pathogenesis of NAFLD-HCC
• Chapter 8. The Influence of Gut Microbial Metabolism on the Development and Progression of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
• Chapter 9. Microbiota, obesity and NAFLD
• Chapter 10. Autophagy, NAFLD and NAFLD-related HCC
• Chapter 11. Animal models of non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases and its associated liver cancer
• Chapter 12. Current prevention and treatment options for NAFLD.