JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL HEPATOLOGY ›› 2014, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (5): 546-549.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-5069.2014.05.029

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What roles the NLRP3 play in liver diseases

Wang Xiaotong, Han Tao   

  1. Department of Liver Diseases,Third Central Clinical College,Tianjin Medical University,Tianjin 300170,China
  • Received:2014-03-24 Online:2014-10-31 Published:2016-04-11

Abstract: The inflammasome is a sort of multiprotein complexes in the cytoplasm,acting as an important component of the body’s innate immune. The nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain(NOD)-like receptors(NLRs),for example the NLRP3,mainly consists of NLRP3,apoptosis-associated speck-like protein(ASC)and cysteinyl aspartate specific proteinase (Caspase-1),which plays a vital roles in the immune regulation and antimicrobial activities. In recent years,there has been a growing number of evidence indicating that NLRP3,the inflammasome,may be closely associated with all kinds of liver diseases. The activation pathway,regulatory mechanism of NLRP3 and its relationship with liver diseases were reviewed .

Key words: Liver diseases, Inflammasome, NLRP3