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. 2016 Feb 10;19(2):131-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2016.01.014.

Alcohol Lowers Your (Intestinal) Inhibitions

Namrata Iyer  1 , Shipra Vaishnava  2
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Alcohol Lowers Your (Intestinal) Inhibitions

Namrata Iyer et al. Cell Host Microbe. .
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Alcohol causes microbiota dysbiosis and breaches intestinal integrity, resulting in liver inflammation and ultimately cirrhosis. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Wang et al. (2016) demonstrate that ethanol suppresses the intestinal anti-microbial response. This enables gut bacteria to trespass to the liver and thus exacerbates the disease progression.

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