Restoring the autonomic balance to reduce liver steatosis

Eveline Bruinstroop^{1

2}, Eric Fliers², Andries Kalsbeek^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders (CVMD), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
² Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Hypothalamic Integration Mechanisms, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Eveline Bruinstroop et al. J Physiol. 2019 Sep.

. 2019 Sep;597(18):4683-4684.

doi: 10.1113/JP278567. Epub 2019 Aug 21.

Eveline Bruinstroop^{1

2}, Eric Fliers², Andries Kalsbeek^{2

3}

¹ Department of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders (CVMD), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
² Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Hypothalamic Integration Mechanisms, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Keywords: autonomic nervous system; lipid metabolism; liver; obesity.

Comment on

Liver sympathetic denervation reverses obesity-induced hepatic steatosis.
Hurr C, Simonyan H, Morgan DA, Rahmouni K, Young CN. Hurr C, et al. J Physiol. 2019 Sep;597(17):4565-4580. doi: 10.1113/JP277994. Epub 2019 Jul 26. J Physiol. 2019. PMID: 31278754 Free PMC article.

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