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• Use of α-ketoglutarate as a novel biomarker of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
• α-ketoglutarate analysis is a non-invasive quantitative measure of liver steatosis.
• This method may reduce the need for liver biopsy, particularly in patients with metabolic risk factor.
• The method could be used to design a kit to detect and quantify plasma α-ketoglutarate concentration.
• Measurement of this biomarker may be useful in the assessment of NAFLD progression.
Description of the technology
The Unit of Biomedical Research (CRB) of the Rovira i Virgili University has developed a new method based on the measurement of α-ketoglutarate as a new biomarker of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The measurement of this biomarker may potentiate the search for a therapeutic approach, may decrease the need for liver biopsy and may be useful in the assessment of disease progression.
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The association of morbid obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) carries a severe impact on human health. Liver biopsy is the sole procedure to unequivocally assess NAFLD diagnosis and clinical progression. A no targeted metabolomics approach provided knowledge to discover that plasma α-ketoglutarate levels distinguish lean controls from obese patients. Circulating α-ketoglutarate is able to differentiate obese patients with steatosis from those without steatosis. An accurate quantification of circulating α-ketoglutarate segregates patients with different degrees of steatosis. The Unit of Biomedical Research (CRB) has developed a method for the accurate quantification of plasma α-ketoglutarate as a novel biomarker of NAFLD.
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