Yen, Head of the Laboratory of Hormonal Regulation at Duke-NUS' Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders Programme, and senior author of the study, said, "The potential for using vitamin B12 and folate, which have high safety profiles and are designated as dietary supplements by the US Food and Drug Administration, as first-line therapies for the prevention and treatment of NASH could result in tremendous cost savings and reduce the health burden from NASH in both developed and developing countries." Currently, the only treatment for patients with end-stage liver disease is to receive a transplant
In-vitro assays show the molecule is membrane-permeable, which supports the possibility of oral absorption, but the animal efficacy studies used injection, and no study has directly compared oral versus subcutaneous bioavailability
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EV2D,E) showed that whilst mice infected with vadK had significantly less tissue damage, there were no significant differences between WT and vadK:vadK infected mice, providing further evidence that the phenotype of vadK was due to deletion of vadK