Increased serum β-hydroxybutyrate/acetoacetate ratio and aggravated histological liver inflammation in females with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and polycystic ovary syndrome

Xiaopeng Zhu^1,† , Guligeina Aikebaier^1,† , Xilei Ban^1,† , Qingxia Huang² , Hongmei Yan¹ , Xinxia Chang¹ , Xinyu Yang¹ , Xiaoyang Sun¹ , Huiru Tang² , Hua Bian^1,* , Xin Gao^1,* , Mingfeng Xia^1,3,*

¹Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan Institute for Metabolic Diseases, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
²State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Human Phenome Institute, Metabonomics and Systems Biology Laboratory at Shanghai International Centre for Molecular Phenomics, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
³Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Wusong Branch of Zhongshan Page 3 of 4 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/jmcb/article/16/11/mjae048/7853134 by Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences,CAS user on 14 July 2025 Zhu et al., J. Mol. Cell Biol. (2024), 16(11), mjae048 Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200940, China
^†These authors contributed equally to this work
^*Correspondence to:Hua Bian , Email:bianhuaer@126.com Xin Gao , Email:zhongshan_endo@126.com Mingfeng Xia , Email:dr_xiamingfeng@163.com

J Mol Cell Biol, Volume 16, Issue 11, November 2024, mjae048,  https://doi.org/10.1093/jmcb/mjae048

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