CD36 and fatty liver disease: CD36 plays an important role in liver lipid homeostasis, lipophagy and autophagy, and its levels increase in hepatocytes exposed to high-fat diets as well as in hepatic steatosis and NAFLD (Bechmann et al., 2010; Love-Gregory and Abumrad 2011; Miquilena-Colina et al., 2011; Li et al., 2019).