Jonathan Gaucher, Emilie Montellier, Guillaume Vial, Florent Chuffart, Maëlle Guellerin, Sophie Bouyon, Emeline Lemarie, Yoshiki Yamaryo Botté, Aya Dirani, Raoua Ben Messaoud, Marie Joyeux Faure, Diane Godin Ribuot, Charlotte Costentin, Renaud Tamisier, Cyrille Y Botté, Saadi Khochbin, Sophie Rousseaux, Jean-Louis Pépin
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) induces intermittent hypoxia (IH), an independent risk factor for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). While the molecular links between IH and NAFLD progression are unclear, immune cell-driven inflammation plays a crucial role in NAFLD pathogenesis. Using lean mice exposed to long-term IH and a cohort of lean OSA patients (n = 71), we conducted comprehensive hepatic transcriptomics, lipidomics, and targeted serum proteomics. Significantly, we demonstrated that long-term IH alone can induce NASH molecular signatures found in human steatohepatitis transcriptomic data...
February 16, 2024: IScience