Abstract: As human’s lifestyle changing, the number of patients with metabolic dysfunctionassociated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) has expanded dramatically, MAFLD now ranks first in
chronic liver disease worldwide. MAFLD may develop to liver fibrosis, liver cirrhosis and even
hepatocellular carcinoma, which is a serious threat to human health. However, the pathogenesis of
MAFLD is not clarified, and there is no approved treatment at present. Therefore, more and more
scholars are devoted to the study of MAFLD. Importantly, unfolded protein response (UPR) induced
by endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS) is involved with insulin resistance (IR), lipid metabolism,
inflammation, autophagy and so on, which has a great influence on the development of MAFLD.
This article summarized the clinical characteristics of MAFLD and the mechanism and research
status of ERS in MAFLD, which was crucial to discover therapeutic targets of MAFLD.
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