Assays

Experimental assay Human-NAFLD/eNASH Samples for the eNASH category were obtained in patients undergoing bariatric surgery with a BMI > 30 and subgroups defined by liver histology as follows: eNASH samples were characterized by >5% fat, an inflammation grade of at least 1, fibrosis ≤1 and ballooning ≤1.

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Experimental assay Human-NAFLD/STEA 8 biopsies from steatosis patients. Samples for the STEA category were obtained in patients undergoing bariatric surgery with a BMI > 30 and subgroups defined by liver histology as follows: STEA samples had >5% fat, no inflammation, fibrosis ≤1 and ballooning ≤1.

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Experimental assay Human-NAFLD/NC 6 biopsies from normal control patients. : NC samples showed steatosis ≤5%, no inflammation, no ballooning and no fibrosis and were obtained during liver resections or biopsy in non-hepatobiliary malignancy in patients with a BMI<30kg/m2. Livers were either free of metastases or a distance of at least 2 cm to the next metastasis observed.

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Experimental assay Human-NAFLD/HO , 4 biopsies from healthy obese patients. Samples for the HO category were obtained in patients undergoing bariatric surgery with a BMI > 30 and subgroups defined by liver histology as follows: HO samples showed a normal liver histology such as the NC samples.

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The liver comprises the body´s largest pool of macrophages constituting approximately 80 % of all sessile tissue macrophages of the body. After liver damage monocyte-derived macrophages are recruited into the liver and were here affected by a micro milieu which is considerably influenced by hepatocytes. Up to now the complex network that determines the differentiation and function of liver macrophages and the impact of the intercellular communication between macrophages and the other parenchymal ...

We describe a distinct macrophage population, whose presence in the liver during homoeostasis depends on recruitment signals mediated by the chemokine receptor CCR2. The identified polarization state of this population closely resembles that induced in co-culture experiments, where hepatocytes are reducing the availability of TGFb to macrophages. Accordingly, disruption of TGFb signal transduction in macrophages phenocopies the influence of hepatocytes on macrophage polarization.

Transcriptomics: the RNA expression of primary hepatocytes and BMDM (Bone Marrow–Derived acrophages) were analysed in 4 different conditions (mono- vs. co-culture, hepatocytes and macrophages) with 5 replicas each to detect the impact of hepatocytes on macrophages and vice versa.

RNA sequence data

DNA sequence data

Western blot

exp assay I Lucarelli paper

DMPlaning 2022

Transcriptomic analysis of hepatocytes captured by laser micro-dissection from hepatic zone: periportal (PP)

Transcriptomic analysis of hepatocytes captured by laser micro-dissection from hepatic zone: intermediate (IZ)