CD36 and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis: Immunohistochemistry of liver sections showed CD36 as located in the hepatocyte plasma membrane in patients with steatosis and NASH, compared to a weak CD36 expression confined to the cytoplasm of hepatocytes in normal livers, suggesting that the translocation of CD36 protein from cytoplasm to membrane may be a triggering event in NAFLD progression [25].