The researchers found the ancient spice was able to attenuate liver injury
induced by ethanol, iron overdose, cholestasis and acute, subchronic and chronic carbon tetrachloride intoxication.
In the same issue of The American Journal of Pathology, another team of investigators from the University of Kansas Medical Center, led
by Dr. Wen - Xing Ding, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics, also report that FOXO3 protects against acute
ethanol -
induced steatosis and liver injury.