Tese de doutoramento, Farmácia (Biologia Celular e Molecular), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Farmácia, 2017Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterized by an excessive accumulation of fat in the liver and encompasses a wide spectrum of hepatic lesions raging from simple steatosis to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), further progressing to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), eventually culminating in liver failure and early death. NAFLD is intimately associated with obesity, diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. It is currently the most prevalent chronic liver disease worldwide, much due to its intricate pathogenic mechanisms and lack of successful pharmacological therapies. In the past few years, bile acids...