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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
Volume 190, Issue 1, Pages 68-81Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2019.09.011
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- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation (NRF) - Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea [2017R1D1A3B03030521, 2019R1A6A1A03033084]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC), China [201708260022]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2017R1D1A3B03030521] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Oxidative stress and its associated lipid peroxidation play a key role in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Ferroptosis is a recently recognized type of cell death characterized by an iron-dependent and lipid peroxidation-mediated nonapoptotic cell death. We demonstrate the impact of ferroptosis on the progression of NASH induced by methionine/choline-deficient diet (MCD) feeding for 10 days. RSL-3 (a ferroptosis inducer) treatment showed decreased hepatic expression of glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) and conversely increased 12/15-lipoxygenase, and apoptosis-inducing factor, indicating that ferroptosis plays a key role in NASH-related lipid peroxidation and its associated cell death. Consistently, levels of serum biochemical, hepatic steatosis, inflammation, and apoptosis in MCD-fed mice were exacerbated with RSL-3 treatment. However, MCD-fed mice treated with sodium selenite (a GPX4 activator) showed increase of hepatic GPX4, accompanied by reduced NASH severity. To chelate iron, deferoxamine mesylate salt was used. Administration of deferoxamine mesylate salt significantly reduced NASH severity and abolished the harmful effects of RSL-3 in MCD-fed mice. Finally, treatment with liproxstatin-1 (a ferroptosis inhibitor) repressed hepatic lipid peroxidation and its associated cell death, resulting in decreased NASH severity. Consistent with the in vivo findings, modulation of ferroptosis/GPX4 affected hepatocellular death in palmitic acid-induced in vitro NASH milieu. We conclude that GPX4 and its related ferroptosis might play a major role in the development of NASH.
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