Jacquelyn Maher, MD

Professor
Medicine

Jacquelyn Maher, MD studies basic mechanisms of hepatotoxicity with a focus on clinically relevant diseases, such as drug-induced liver injury and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).

Publications: 

Novel autoantibody targets identified in patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) by PhIP-Seq reveals pathogenic insights.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Klepper A, Kung A, Vazquez SE, Mitchell A, Mann S, Zorn K, Avila-Vargas I, Kari S, Tekeste M, Castro J, Lee B, Duarte M, Khalili M, Yang M, Wolters P, Price J, Perito E, Feng S, Maher JJ, Lai J, Weiler-Normann C, Lohse AW, DeRisi J, Tana M

Hyperpolarized [1-13 C] pyruvate MRSI to detect metabolic changes in liver in a methionine and choline-deficient diet rat model of fatty liver disease.

Magnetic resonance in medicine

Piraquive Agudelo J, Kim Y, Agarwal S, Sriram R, Bok R, Kurhanewicz J, Mattis AN, Maher JJ, von Morze C, Ohliger MA

A genetic basis of mitochondrial DNAJA3 in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis-related hepatocellular carcinoma.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Chang CW, Chen YS, Huang CH, Lin CH, Ng WV, Chu LJ, Trépo E, Zucman-Rossi J, Siao K, Maher JJ, Chiew MY, Chou CH, Huang HD, Teo WH, Lee IS, Lo JF, Wang XW

Modeling and therapeutic targeting of inflammation-induced hepatic insulin resistance using human iPSC-derived hepatocytes and macrophages.

Nature communications

Groeger M, Matsuo K, Heidary Arash E, Pereira A, Le Guillou D, Pino C, Telles-Silva KA, Maher JJ, Hsiao EC, Willenbring H

The Role of STING in Liver Injury Is Both Stimulus- and Time-Dependent.

Nutrients

Siao K, Le Guillou D, Maher JJ, Duwaerts CC

Mouse liver injury induces hepatic macrophage FGF23 production.

PloS one

Kumar P, Liu Y, Shen Y, Maher JJ, Cingolani F, Czaja MJ

Doxycycline Significantly Enhances Induction of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Endoderm by Enhancing Survival Through Protein Kinase B Phosphorylation.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Peaslee C, Esteva-Font C, Su T, Munoz-Howell A, Duwaerts CC, Liu Z, Rao S, Liu K, Medina M, Sneddon JB, Maher JJ, Mattis AN

Visceral Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Radiographic Visceral-to-Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Ratio in Patients with Cirrhosis.

Digestive diseases and sciences

Ha NB, Cho SJ, Mohamad Y, Kent D, Jun G, Wong R, Swarnakar V, Lin S, Maher JJ, Lai JC

Hepatocyte-specific deletion of XBP1 sensitizes mice to liver injury through hyperactivation of IRE1α.

Cell death and differentiation

Duwaerts CC, Siao K, Soon RK, Her C, Iwawaki T, Kohno K, Mattis AN, Maher JJ

Ly6cLo non-classical monocytes promote resolution of rhesus rotavirus-mediated perinatal hepatic inflammation.

Scientific reports

Alkhani A, Levy CS, Tsui M, Rosenberg KA, Polovina K, Mattis AN, Mack M, Van Dyken S, Wang BM, Maher JJ, Nijagal A

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in 2020.

Gastroenterology

Maher JJ, Schattenberg JM

Macronutrients and the Adipose-Liver Axis in Obesity and Fatty Liver.

Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology

Duwaerts CC, Maher JJ

Loss of Integrin αvβ8 in Murine Hepatocytes Accelerates Liver Regeneration.

The American journal of pathology

Greenhalgh SN, Matchett KP, Taylor RS, Huang K, Li JT, Saeteurn K, Donnelly MC, Simpson EEM, Pollack JL, Atakilit A, Simpson KJ, Maher JJ, Iredale JP, Sheppard D, Henderson NC

Race/ethnicity is an independent risk factor for autoimmune hepatitis among the San Francisco underserved.

Autoimmunity

Lee B, Holt EW, Wong RJ, Sewell JL, Somsouk M, Khalili M, Maher JJ, Tana MM

Hospitalizations for Autoimmune Hepatitis Disproportionately Affect Black and Latino Americans.

The American journal of gastroenterology

Wen JW, Kohn MA, Wong R, Somsouk M, Khalili M, Maher J, Tana MM

CD18 deficiency improves liver injury in the MCD model of steatohepatitis.

PloS one

Pierce AA, Duwaerts CC, Siao K, Mattis AN, Goodsell A, Baron JL, Maher JJ

Specific Macronutrients Exert Unique Influences on the Adipose-Liver Axis to Promote Hepatic Steatosis in Mice.

Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology

Duwaerts CC, Amin AM, Siao K, Her C, Fitch M, Beysen C, Turner SM, Goodsell A, Baron JL, Grenert JP, Cho SJ, Maher JJ

Pathogenesis of NAFLD and NASH.

Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Jacquelyn J. Maher

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

Nature reviews. Disease primers

Brunt EM, Wong VW, Nobili V, Day CP, Sookoian S, Maher JJ, Bugianesi E, Sirlin CB, Neuschwander-Tetri BA, Rinella ME

Isocaloric manipulation of macronutrients within a high-carbohydrate/moderate-fat diet induces unique effects on hepatic lipogenesis, steatosis and liver injury.

The Journal of nutritional biochemistry

Pierce AA, Duwaerts CC, Soon RK, Siao K, Grenert JP, Fitch M, Hellerstein MK, Beysen C, Turner SM, Maher JJ

A screen in mice uncovers repression of lipoprotein lipase by microRNA-29a as a mechanism for lipid distribution away from the liver.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Mattis AN, Song G, Hitchner K, Kim RY, Lee AY, Sharma AD, Malato Y, McManus MT, Esau CC, Koller E, Koliwad S, Lim LP, Maher JJ, Raffai RL, Willenbring H

Mechanisms of Liver Injury in Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis.

Current hepatology reports

Duwaerts CC, Maher JJ

Circulating interleukin-8 levels explain breast cancer osteolysis in mice and humans.

Bone

Kamalakar A, Bendre MS, Washam CL, Fowler TW, Carver A, Dilley JD, Bracey JW, Akel NS, Margulies AG, Skinner RA, Swain FL, Hogue WR, Montgomery CO, Lahiji P, Maher JJ, Leitzel KE, Ali SM, Lipton A, Nicholas RW, Gaddy D, Suva LJ

Targeting of αv integrin identifies a core molecular pathway that regulates fibrosis in several organs.

Nature medicine

Henderson NC, Arnold TD, Katamura Y, Giacomini MM, Rodriguez JD, McCarty JH, Pellicoro A, Raschperger E, Betsholtz C, Ruminski PG, Griggs DW, Prinsen MJ, Maher JJ, Iredale JP, Lacy-Hulbert A, Adams RH, Sheppard D

A liver Hif-2α-Irs2 pathway sensitizes hepatic insulin signaling and is modulated by Vegf inhibition.

Nature medicine

Wei K, Piecewicz SM, McGinnis LM, Taniguchi CM, Wiegand SJ, Anderson K, Chan CW, Mulligan KX, Kuo D, Yuan J, Vallon M, Morton L, Lefai E, Simon MC, Maher JJ, Mithieux G, Rajas F, Annes J, McGuinness OP, Thurston G, Giaccia AJ, Kuo CJ

Retinol binding protein 4 and fatty liver: A direct link?

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Maher JJ

Hepatic fibrosis: evaluation with semiquantitative contrast-enhanced CT.

Radiology

Varenika V, Fu Y, Maher JJ, Gao D, Kakar S, Cabarrus MC, Yeh BM

Insulin sensitivity and variability in hepatitis C virus infection using direct measurement.

Digestive diseases and sciences

Mukhtar NA, Bacchetti P, Ayala CE, Melgar J, Christensen S, Maher JJ, Khalili M

Specific bile acids inhibit hepatic fatty acid uptake in mice.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Nie B, Park HM, Kazantzis M, Lin M, Henkin A, Ng S, Song S, Chen Y, Tran H, Lai R, Her C, Maher JJ, Forman BM, Stahl A

Lipids in liver disease: looking beyond steatosis.

Gastroenterology

Schwabe RF, Maher JJ

New insights from rodent models of fatty liver disease.

Antioxidants & redox signaling

Maher JJ

Comparison of surrogate and direct measurement of insulin resistance in chronic hepatitis C virus infection: impact of obesity and ethnicity.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Lam KD, Bacchetti P, Abbasi F, Ayala CE, Loeb SM, Shah V, Wen MJ, Reaven GM, Maher JJ, Khalili M

Dietary fructose exacerbates hepatocellular injury when incorporated into a methionine-choline-deficient diet.

Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver

Pickens MK, Ogata H, Soon RK, Grenert JP, Maher JJ

Short passive cooling protects rats during hepatectomy by inducing heat shock proteins and limiting the induction of pro-inflammatory cytokines.

The Journal of surgical research

Niemann CU, Xu F, Choi S, Behrends M, Park Y, Hirose R, Maher JJ

Dietary sucrose is essential to the development of liver injury in the methionine-choline-deficient model of steatohepatitis.

Journal of lipid research

Pickens MK, Yan JS, Ng RK, Ogata H, Grenert JP, Beysen C, Turner SM, Maher JJ

DAMPs ramp up drug toxicity.

The Journal of clinical investigation

Maher JJ

Beyond insulin resistance: Innate immunity in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Maher JJ, Leon P, Ryan JC

Impaired dexamethasone-mediated induction of tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase in heme-deficient rat hepatocytes: translational control by a hepatic eIF2alpha kinase, the heme-regulated inhibitor.

The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics

Liao M, Pabarcus MK, Wang Y, Hefner C, Maltby DA, Medzihradszky KF, Salas-Castillo SP, Yan J, Maher JJ, Correia MA

Alcoholic steatohepatitis: management and prognosis.

Current gastroenterology reports

Maher JJ

Mild hypothermia protects obese rats from fulminant hepatic necrosis induced by ischemia-reperfusion.

Surgery

Niemann CU, Choi S, Behrends M, Hirose R, Noh J, Coatney JL, Roberts JP, Serkova NJ, Maher JJ

Mice fed a lipogenic methionine-choline-deficient diet develop hypermetabolism coincident with hepatic suppression of SCD-1.

Journal of lipid research

Rizki G, Arnaboldi L, Gabrielli B, Yan J, Lee GS, Ng RK, Turner SM, Badger TM, Pitas RE, Maher JJ

VEGF modulates erythropoiesis through regulation of adult hepatic erythropoietin synthesis.

Nature medicine

Tam BY, Wei K, Rudge JS, Hoffman J, Holash J, Park SK, Yuan J, Hefner C, Chartier C, Lee JS, Jiang S, Nayak NR, Niyak NR, Kuypers FA, Ma L, Sundram U, Wu G, Garcia JA, Schrier SL, Maher JJ, Johnson RS, Yancopoulos GD, Mulligan RC, Kuo CJ

ANIT toxicity toward mouse hepatocytes in vivo is mediated primarily by neutrophils via CD18.

American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology

Kodali P, Wu P, Lahiji PA, Brown EJ, Maher JJ

Warm ischemia-induced alterations in oxidative and inflammatory proteins in hepatic Kupffer cells in rats.

Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP

Hirsch J, Hansen KC, Choi S, Noh J, Hirose R, Roberts JP, Matthay MA, Burlingame AL, Maher JJ, Niemann CU

Metabolic profiling of livers and blood from obese Zucker rats.

Journal of hepatology

Serkova NJ, Jackman M, Brown JL, Liu T, Hirose R, Roberts JP, Maher JJ, Niemann CU

Transgenic overexpression of interleukin-8 in mouse liver protects against galactosamine/endotoxin toxicity.

Journal of hepatology

Hanson JC, Bostick MK, Campe CB, Kodali P, Lee G, Yan J, Maher JJ

Limited role for CXC chemokines in the pathogenesis of alpha-naphthylisothiocyanate-induced liver injury.

American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology

Xu J, Lee G, Wang H, Vierling JM, Maher JJ

Infiltrating neutrophils in bile duct-ligated livers do not promote hepatic fibrosis.

Hepatology research : the official journal of the Japan Society of Hepatology

Saito JM, Bostick MK, Campe CB, Xu J, Maher JJ

Treatment of alcoholic hepatitis.

Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology

Maher JJ

Alcoholic steatosis and steatohepatitis.

Seminars in gastrointestinal disease

Maher JJ

Blocking the secretion of hepatic very low density lipoproteins renders the liver more susceptible to toxin-induced injury.

The Journal of biological chemistry

Björkegren J, Beigneux A, Bergo MO, Maher JJ, Young SG

Anti-Fas induces hepatic chemokines and promotes inflammation by an NF-kappa B-independent, caspase-3-dependent pathway.

The Journal of biological chemistry

Faouzi S, Burckhardt BE, Hanson JC, Campe CB, Schrum LW, Rippe RA, Maher JJ

Cholesterol esterification by host and parasite is essential for optimal proliferation of Toxoplasma gondii.

The Journal of biological chemistry

Sonda S, Ting LM, Novak S, Kim K, Maher JJ, Farese RV, Ernst JD

Activation of the Met receptor by cell attachment induces and sustains hepatocellular carcinomas in transgenic mice.

The Journal of cell biology

Wang R, Ferrell LD, Faouzi S, Maher JJ, Bishop JM

Antidiabetic treatment for NASH?

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Maher J

Leukocytes as modulators of stellate cell activation.

Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research

Maher JJ

Cytokines: overview.

Seminars in liver disease

Maher JJ

CHEMOKINES AND ALCOHOLIC LIVER DISEASE.

Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research

Jacquelyn J. Maher

The extracellular matrix in liver regeneration.

Liver Growth and Repair

Jacquelyn J. Maher

Exploring alcohol's effects on liver function.

Alcohol health and research world

Maher JJ

Malondialdehyde stimulates collagen production by hepatic lipocytes only upon activation in primary culture.

Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire)

Maher JJ, Tzagarakis C, Giménez A

Cell-matrix interactions in liver.

Seminars in cell biology

Maher JJ, Bissell DM

Parenchymal and nonparenchymal cell interactions in the liver.

Seminars in liver disease

Maher JJ, Friedman SL

Inhibition of rat hepatic lipocyte activation in culture by interferon-gamma.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Rockey DC, Maher JJ, Jarnagin WR, Gabbiani G, Friedman SL

Isolated hepatic lipocytes and Kupffer cells from normal human liver: morphological and functional characteristics in primary culture.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Friedman SL, Rockey DC, McGuire RF, Maher JJ, Boyles JK, Yamasaki G

Connective tissue biology and hepatic fibrosis: report of a conference.

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Bissell DM, Friedman SL, Maher JJ, Roll FJ

Hepatic fibrosis caused by alcohol.

Seminars in liver disease

Maher JJ

Fat-storing cells and myofibroblasts: one cell or two?

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Maher JJ

Primary hepatocyte culture: is it home away from home?

Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)

Maher JJ

Collagen measured in primary cultures of normal rat hepatocytes derives from lipocytes within the monolayer.

The Journal of clinical investigation

Maher JJ, Bissell DM, Friedman SL, Roll FJ