Accepted Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/liv.12476 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Received Date : 24-Jul-2013 Revised Date : 02-Jan-2014 Accepted Date : 26-Jan-2014 Article type : Original Articles Metabolomic tissue signature in human non-alcoholic fatty liver disease identifies protective candidate metabolites Witigo von Schönfels 1* , Eleonora Patsenker 2* , René Fahrner 3 , Timo Itzel 4 , Holger Hinrichsen 5 , Mario Brosch 6 , Wiebke Erhart 7 , Auste Gruodyte 1 , Bernd Vollnberg 7 , Klaus Richter 8 , Andreas Landrock 8 , Stefan Schreiber 7 , Stephan Brückner 6 , Guido Beldi 3 , Bence Sipos 9 , Thomas Becker 1 , Christoph Röcken 10 , Andreas Teufel 4 , Felix Stickel 2 , Clemens Schafmayer 1 , Jochen Hampe 6‡ Department of General and Thoracic Surgery 1 , Department of Internal Medicine I 7 , Institute of Pathology 10 , all at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, 24105 Kiel, Germany; Department of Clinical Research 2 and Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine 3 , University of Bern, Switzerland; Department of Medicine I 4 , University Hospital Regensburg, Germany; Gastroenterology Outpatient Center Kiel 5 , Kiel, Germany; Department of Internal Medicine I 6 , University Hospital Dresden, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany; GWT-TUD GmbH 8 , Dresden, Germany; Institute of Pathology 9 , University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany,