Suzhou Niumag Analytical Instrument Corporation 1 article published in JoVE Medicine Optimized Analysis of In Vivo and In Vitro Hepatic Steatosis Aoyuan Cui1, Zhimin Hu1, Yamei Han1, Yi Yang2, Yu Li1 1CAS Key Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute for Nutritional Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2Suzhou Niumag Analytical Instrument Corporation Here, optimized methods to generate in vivo and in vitro models of hepatic steatosis and to analyze the steatotic phenotypes and related physiological parameters are described.