CXCL9 and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis: In the current experiments, expression of this protein was found in the hepatic parenchyma and sinusoids in the vicinity of some of the inflammatory cell clusters in NASH livers (Figure 4F), consistent with previous reports; to the best of our knowledge, this is the first clear demonstration of the localization of CXCL9 protein in the NASH liver.