Chronic alcohol exposure renders epithelial cells vulnerable to bacterial infection.

Chronic alcohol exposure renders epithelial cells vulnerable to bacterial infection.

Despite two centuries of reports linking alcohol consumption with enhanced susceptibility to bacterial infections and in particular gut-derived bacteria, there have been no studies or model systems to assess the impact of long-term alcohol exposure on the ability of the epithelial barrier to withsta...

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Main Authors: Stephen Wood, Ravi Pithadia, Tooba Rehman, Lijuan Zhang, Jennifer Plichta, Katherine A Radek, Christopher Forsyth, Ali Keshavarzian, Sasha H Shafikhani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3554638?pdf=render

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