Current status and challenges in the drug treatment for fibrotic nonalcoholic steatohepatitis  

作　　者：Yi-wen Shi Jian-gao Fan 

机构地区：[1]Center for Fatty Liver,Department of Gastroenterology,Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine,Shanghai Key Lab of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition,Shanghai,200092,China

出　　处：《Acta Pharmacologica Sinica》2022年第5期1191-1199,共9页中国药理学报（英文版）

基　　金：This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81873565,81900507,82170593);Shanghai Leading Talent Plan 2017,Star Program of Shanghai Jiao Tong University(YG2021QN54);Hospital Funded Clinical Research,Clinical Research Unit,Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine(17CSK04);SJTU Trans-med Awards Research(20190104).

摘　　要：Currently,nonalcoholic steatohepatitis(NASH)is one of the most common forms of chronic hepatitis,increasing the burden of health care worldwide.In patients with NASH,the fibrosis stage is the most predictive factor of long-term events.However,there are still no drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration of the United States for treating biopsy-proven NASH with fibrosis or cirrhosis.Although some novel drugs have shown promise in preclinical studies and led to improvement in terms of hepatic fat content and steatohepatitis,a considerable proportion of them have failed to achieve histological endpoints of fibrosis improvement.Due to the large number of NASH patients and adverse clinical outcomes,the search for novel drugs is necessary.In this review,we discuss current definitions for the evaluation of treatment efficacy in fibrosis improvement for NASH patients,and we summarize novel agents in the pipeline from different mechanisms and phases of trial.We also critically review the challenges we face in the development of novel agents for fibrotic NASH and NASH cirrhosis.

关 键 词：nonalcoholic steatohepatitis liver fibrosis CIRRHOSIS novel therapies treatment efficacy 

分 类 号：R575.5[医药卫生—消化系统]