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SEMINARS IN LIVER DISEASE
卷 29, 期 2, 页码 166-177出版社
THIEME MEDICAL PUBL INC
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1214372
关键词
Ethanol; steatosis; inflammation; toll-like receptors; hepatitis
资金
- NIH [F30 AA017030]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM [F30AA017030] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Alcoholic liver injury involves a complex array of derangements in cellular signaling of hepatic parenchymal and nonparenchymal cells as well as cells of the immune system. In the hepatocyte, chronic ethanol abuse leads to lipid accumulation and liver steatosis. Multiple pathways are affected to promote lipid accumulation in the ethanol-exposed hepatocyte. Chronic ethanol renders Kupffer cells hyperresponsive to endotoxin, which results in production of inflammatory cytokines and the tumor necrosis factor-a via a toll-like receptor 4 dependent pathway, leading to inflammation and hepatic necrosis. Dysfunction of the innate and adaptive immune responses caused by ethanol contributes to impaired antiviral response, inflammatory injury, and autoimmune activation. Recent developments in the literature are reviewed in a model that suggests lipid accumulation, dysregulation of immunity, and impaired antiviral and autoimmune responses as three distinct, though interwoven, pathophysiological mechanisms of alcoholic liver injury.
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