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TRPV1 activation prevents nonalcoholic fatty liver through UCP2 upregulation in mice

Overview of attention for article published in Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology, March 2012
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Title
TRPV1 activation prevents nonalcoholic fatty liver through UCP2 upregulation in mice
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Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology, March 2012
DOI 10.1007/s00424-012-1078-y
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Li Li, Jing Chen, Yinxing Ni, Xiaoli Feng, Zhigang Zhao, Peijian Wang, Jing Sun, Hao Yu, Zhencheng Yan, Daoyan Liu, Bernd Nilius, Zhiming Zhu

Abstract

Nonalcoholic fatty liver is characterized by the fatty deformation and lipid deposition of hepatic parenchymal cells that are associated with cardiometabolic diseases. In this study, we report the effect of capsaicin on its receptor, transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) cation channel, in preventing fatty liver formation. Functional TRPV1 has been detected in hepatocytes and liver tissues. TRPV1 activation by capsaicin reduced lipid accumulation and triglyceride level in the liver from wild-type (WT) mice. However, these effects were absent in the liver from TRPV1(-/-) mice. Chronic dietary capsaicin increased the hepatic uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) expression in WT but not in TRPV1(-/-) mice (P < 0.01). We conclude that TRPV1 long-time activation might prevent high-fat diet-induced fatty liver in mice through upregulation of hepatic UCP2. Dietary capsaicin may represent a promising intervention in populations at high risk for fatty liver.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 2%
Chile 1 2%
Unknown 55 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 14%
Student > Bachelor 6 11%
Professor 5 9%
Student > Master 5 9%
Other 9 16%
Unknown 11 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 25%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 14 25%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 5%
Neuroscience 2 4%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 16 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 April 2021.
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