Review for 10.1186/s12876-017-0592-y (2017)

Reviewer ’s report  
Title: Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver disease and eNOS dysfunction in humans  
Version: 0 Date: 07 Nov 2016  
Reviewer: Christa Buechler  
Reviewer's report:  
The article "Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver disease and eNOS dysfunction in humans" by Marcello 
Persico et al demonstrates that eNOS is affected in NAFLD patients.  
 
Manuscript can be improved by addressing the following issues:  
 "Insulin" please use lower case letters (Abstract and text).  
"in both in platelets and in liver" in has to be deleted (Abstract).  
Please correct these and further grammatical / typing errors: "due to the to" (Introduction), 
"p<0,05", "TNF -alfa"  
 
Table 1:  is the BMI of NAFLD patients correct? When looking at BMIs of NAFL and NASH 
this is unlikely. Patients with hypertension are 20 in the whole patients group and 21 when 
groups are listed separately.  
Table 2, please give range of NAS.  
Quality of figure 3  (NAFL and NASH) has to be improved.  
Is there a difference in iNOS activity in the platelets? This should be analyzed in the samples that 
are already available.  
Platelets were treated with insulin and dysfunctional insulin effects on Akt phosphorylatio n 
should be analyzed in these samples.  
"in which it was clearly demonstrated that NAFLD patients had significantly  lower levels of 
s1177 -p-eNOS if compared to both NASH and healthy controls." NAFLD has to be replaced by 
NAFL  
Are the methods appropriate and well described?  
If not, please specify what is required in your comments to the authors.  
 
Yes 
 
Does the work include the necessary controls?  
If not, please specify which controls are required in your comments to the authors.  
 
Yes 
 
Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?  
If not, pl ease explain in your comments to the authors.  
 
Yes 
 
Are you able to assess any statistics in the manuscript or would you recommend an  
additional statistical review?  
If an additional statistical review is recommended, please specify what aspects require furth er 
assessment in your comments to the editors.  
 
I am able to assess the statistics  
 
Quality of written English  
Please indicate the quality of language in the manuscript:  
 
Needs some language corrections before being published  
 
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