Abstract
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a severe form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Obesity is a known risk factor of NASH, which, in turn, increases the risk of developing cirrhosis (liver scarring) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In addition to being a potentially life-threatening condition, public health concerns surrounding NASH are amplified by the lack of FDA-approved treatments. Although various preclinical models reflecting both the histopathology and the pathophysiological progression of human NASH exist, most of these models are diet-based and require 6–13 months for NASH symptom manifestation. Here, we describe a simple and rapid-progression model of NASH and NASH-driven HCC in mice. Mice received a western diet equivalent (WD; i.e., a high-fat, high-fructose, and high-cholesterol diet), high-sugar water (23.1 g/L fructose and 18.9 g/L glucose), and weekly intraperitoneal injections of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) at a dose of 0.2 μL/g of body weight. The resulting phenotype, consisting in liver fibrosis and HCC, appeared within 24 weeks of diet/treatment initiation and presented similar histological and transcriptomic features as human NASH and NASH-driven HCC, thereby supporting the adequacy of this preclinical model for the development and evaluation of drugs that can prevent or reverse these diseases.
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GK is supported by the Ligue contre le Cancer (équipe labellisée); Agence National de la Recherche (ANR) – Projets blancs; AMMICa US23/CNRS UMS3655; Association pour la recherche sur le cancer (ARC); Cancéropôle Ile-de-France; Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM); a donation by Elior; Equipex Onco-Pheno-Screen; European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJPRD); Gustave Roussy Odyssea, the European Union Horizon 2020 Projects Oncobiome and CRIMSON (grant agreement No. 101016923); Fondation Carrefour; Institut National du Cancer (INCa); Institut Universitaire de France; LabEx Immuno-Oncology (ANR-18-IDEX-0001); a Cancer Research ASPIRE Award from the Mark Foundation; the RHU Immunolife; Seerave Foundation; SIRIC Stratified Oncology Cell DNA Repair and Tumor Immune Elimination (SOCRATE); and SIRIC Cancer Research and Personalized Medicine (CARPEM). This study contributes to the IdEx Université de Paris ANR-18-IDEX-0001. SL and HC are supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC, file n°. 201907060011 and file n° 201908070134, respectively). UN-R is supported by Axudas de apoio á etapa de formación posdoutoral da Xunta de Galicia – GAIN. N°Expediente: IN606B-2021/015.
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GK has been holding research contracts with Daiichi Sankyo, Eleor, Kaleido, Lytix Pharma, PharmaMar, Osasuna Therapeutics, Samsara Therapeutics, Sanofi, Tollys, and Vascage. GK has been consulting for Reithera. GK is on the Board of Directors of the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation France. GK is a scientific co-founder of everImmune, Osasuna Therapeutics, Samsara Therapeutics, and Therafast Bio. GK is in the scientific advisory boards of Hevolution, Institut Servier, and Longevity Vision Funds. GK is the inventor of patents covering therapeutic targeting of aging, cancer, cystic fibrosis, and metabolic disorders. Guido Kroemer’s wife, Laurence Zitvogel, has held research contracts with Glaxo Smyth Kline, Incyte, Lytix, Kaleido, Innovate Pharma, Daiichi Sankyo, Pilege, Merus, Transgene, 9 m, Tusk, and Roche, was on the on the Board of Directors of Transgene, is a cofounder of everImmune, and holds patents covering the treatment of cancer and the therapeutic manipulation of the microbiota. GK’s brother, Romano Kroemer, was an employee of Sanofi and now consults for Boehringer-Ingelheim. The funders had no role in the design of the study, in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results.
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Li, S. et al. (2024). A Mouse Model of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Induced by Western Diet and Carbon Tetrachloride. In: Kroemer, G., Pol, J., Martins, I. (eds) Liver Carcinogenesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2769. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3694-7_4
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