- Kim, Hyun Young;
- Lee, Wonseok;
- Liu, Xiao;
- Jang, Haeum;
- Sakane, Sadatsugu;
- Weber, Raquel Carvalho-Gontijo;
- Diggle, Karin;
- Kerk, Samuel A;
- Metallo, Christian M;
- Kisseleva, Tatiana;
- Brenner, David A
Currently, there is no effective treatment for obesity and alcohol-associated liver diseases, partially due to the lack of translational human models. Here, we present a protocol to generate 3D human liver spheroids that contain all the liver cell types and mimic "livers in a dish." We describe strategies to induce metabolic and alcohol-associated hepatic steatosis, inflammation, and fibrosis. We outline potential applications, including using human liver spheroids for experimental and translational research and drug screening to identify potential anti-fibrotic therapies.