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. 2021 May 15;13(5):1679. doi: 10.3390/nu13051679
AA Arachidonic acid
ACC Acetyl-CoA carboxylase
ACDRP Amish Complex Disease Research Program
AMPK Adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase
ASO antisense oligonucleotides
ATG7 Autophagy related 7
CHO Carbohydrate enriched
CKD Chronic kidney disease
DNL De novo lipogenesis
FAs Fatty acids
FASN Fatty acid synthetase
FFAs Free fatty acids
GCKR Glucokinase regulator
GWAS Genome-wide association studies
GPR G protein-coupled receptor
HCC Hepatocellular carcinoma
HDCA3 Histone deacetylases
HFD High-fat diet
HFE Homeostatic iron regulator
HFF% Hepatic fat fraction percentage
HFS High-fat-sucrose
HSCs Hepatic stellate cells
IL Interleukin
IR Insulin resistance
LA Linoleic acid
LDL Low-density lipoproteins
LDL-R Low density lipoprotein receptor
LKB1 Liver kinase B1 (LKB1)
LOX-1 Lectin-like oxidized LDL receptor-1
LXR Liver X receptor
MAFLD Metabolic (dysfunction) associated fatty liver disease
MARC1 Mitochondrial amidoxime reducing component 1
MBOAT7 Membrane-bound O-acyltransferase domain containing 7
MD Mediterranean diet
MiRNAs MicroRNAs
MS Metabolic syndrome
Mt-DNA Mitochondrial DNA
MT-ND6 Mitochondrially encoded NADH ubiquinone oxidoreductase core subunit 6
mTOR mammalian target of rapamycin
MTTP Microsomal triglyceride transfer protein
n−3 Omega 3
n−6 Omega 6
n−9 Omega 9
NAFLD Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
NAS NAFLD activity score
NASH Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
NF-kB Nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cells
NLRP3 NLR family pyrin domain containing 3
OxLDL oxidized low-density lipoproteins
PARVB variant 1 Homo sapiens parvin beta transcript variant 1
PCSK7 Proprotein convertase subtilisin/Kexin type 7
PDGF-α Platelet derived growth factor-alpha
PGC1 peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor -coactivator-1beta
PI Phosphatidylinositol
PNPLA3 Phospholipase domain-containing protein-3
PPAR Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor
PPP1R3B Protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 3B
PUFAs Polyunsaturated fatty acids
ROS Reactive oxygen species
SCFAs short chain fatty acids
SIRT Sirtuin
Sirtuins Silent information regulator 2 proteins
SNP Single nucleotide polymorphism
SOD 2 Superoxide dismutase 2
SR-A Scavenger receptor A
SREBP1 Sterol regulatory element-binding proteins
SsRNAs Small non-coding single strand RNAs
TG Triglycerides
TGF-β Transforming growth factor-beta
TI Trained immunity
TLRs Toll like receptors
TM6SF2 Transmembrane 6 superfamily member 2 protein
TNF-α Tumour necrosis factor-α
UCP2 Uncoupling protein 2
UCP3 Uncoupling Protein 3
UFAs Unsaturated fatty acids
UTR Untranslated region
VLDL Very-low-density lipoproteins