IL1B and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis: Although licorice extract has also been reported to inhibit the expression levels of proinflammatory cytokines, such as TNF-α, IL-1β, and IL-6 (Kim et al., 2006; Yu et al., 2015; Yang et al., 2017; Frattaruolo et al., 2019; El-Saber Batiha et al., 2020), the mechanism underlying its protective effect in NASH remains incompletely understood.