Schematic summary of the mechanisms underlying the effects of ethanol and high-dose taurine consumption on liver injury. (IMAGE)

First Hospital of Jilin University

Schematic summary of the mechanisms underlying the effects of ethanol and high-dose taurine consumption on liver injury.

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The illustration was created with BioRender.com. BA, bile acid; Baat, bile acid-CoA: amino acid N-acyltransferase; Cpt1a, carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A; Csad, cysteine sulfonic acid decarboxylase; Fasn, fatty acid synthase; H₂S, hydrogen sulfide; taurine, β-aminoethanesulfonic acid.

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By Jingdan Pei, Lixian Chen, Rahul Pushparaj, et al.

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