BAD and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: The pronounced immunohistochemicalstaining revealed by us in the liver of the 18-week-old maledb/db mice for the proapoptotic protein Bad of endothelialcells of the blood sinusoid capillaries with a low level of the antiapoptotic protein Bcl-2 expression in them indicates thedevelopment of a mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis in thecells of the blood-lymph barrier in the liver under NAFLD(Shimizu et al., 2011; Hutchins et al., 2013).