Obesity, Fatty Liver and Liver Cancer

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
 Introduction  (Chi Chun Wong, Jun Yu)....Pages 1-2
 Epidemiology and Etiologic Associations of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Associated HCC  (Ken Liu, Geoffrey W. McCaughan)....Pages 3-18
 Pathogenesis of NASH: How Metabolic Complications of Overnutrition Favour Lipotoxicity and Pro-Inflammatory Fatty Liver Disease  (Geoffrey C. Farrell, Fahrettin Haczeyni, Shivakumar Chitturi)....Pages 19-44
 Chemokines and Chemokine Receptors in the Development of NAFLD  (Yoon-Seok Roh, Ekihiro Seki)....Pages 45-53
 NAFLD Related-HCC: The Relationship with Metabolic Disorders  (Xiang Zhang)....Pages 55-62
 Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Obesity: Finding a Needle in the Haystack?  (György Baffy)....Pages 63-77
 Dysregulated Epigenetic Modifications in the Pathogenesis of NAFLD-HCC  (Fung Zhao)....Pages 79-93
 The Influence of Gut Microbial Metabolism on the Development and Progression of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease  (Wei Jia, Cynthia Rajani)....Pages 95-110
 Microbiota, Obesity and NAFLD  (Louis H. S. Lau, Sunny H. Wong)....Pages 111-125
 Autophagy, NAFLD and NAFLD-Related HCC  (William K. K. Wu, Lin Zhang, Matthew T. V. Chan)....Pages 127-138
 Animal Models of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases and Its Associated Liver Cancer  (Jennie Ka Ching Lau, Xiang Zhang, Jun Yu)....Pages 139-147
 Current Prevention and Treatment Options for NAFLD  (Vincent Wai-Sun Wong)....Pages 149-157