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Toll-like receptor 4 is involved in the mechanism of early alcohol-induced liver injury in mice.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Jul 2001
Uesugi T, Froh M, Arteel G E, Bradford B U, Thurman R G
Abstract excerpt
Chronic alcohol administration increases gut-derived endotoxin in the portal blood, which activates Kupffer cells and causes liver injury. Mice (C3H/HeJ) with mutations in toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) are hyporesponsive to endotoxin. To test the hypothesis that TLR4 is involved in early alcohol-induced liver injury, the long-term intragastric ethanol feeding protocol developed by Tsukamoto and French for rats was...
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