1st Edition

Liver Metabolism and Fatty Liver Disease

Edited By Oren Tirosh Copyright 2015
338 Pages
by CRC Press

338 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

338 Pages
by CRC Press

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is one of the most common liver diseases worldwide affecting patients from all ages, races, and ethnic backgrounds. It comprises a spectrum of hepatic pathology ranging from simple steatosis, in which there is an increase of fat accumulation in hepatocytes, to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and cirrhosis. The significant prevalence of this disease—between 15 and 45... Read more

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Biography

Oren Tirosh is an associate professor at the School of Nutrition Science in the Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his PhD from the School of Pharmacy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Tirosh is a lifetime honorary member in the Oxygen Club of California and is active in the board of The Israel Society for Oxygen and Free Radical Research. His research interests include nitric oxide and redox biology, oxidative stress and liver pathology, and lipid metabolism under liver disease conditions.