Traditional Chinese herbal extracts inducing autophagy as a novel approach in therapy of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Figure 1 Two major lipid metabolism pathways have been identified in human: the lipolysis pathway and the lipophagy pathway.

Figure 2 The role of autophagy induced by traditional Chinese herbal extracts in treating non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. SAMC: Garlic-derived S-allylmercaptocysteine; LBPs: Lycium barbarum polysaccharide; RSV: Resveratrol; BPF: Bergamot polyphenol fraction; DIO: Dioscin; CAP: Capsaicin; PPAR: Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor; TRPV1: Transient receptor potential vanilloid 1.