The Role of Cytokines in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Alcoholic Liver Disease

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Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is a major cause of chronic liver disease. This term covers a broad spectrum of liver lesions, from simple steatosis to alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis. The patho-genesis of ALD is multifactorial and not fully elucidated due to complex mechanisms related to direct ethanol toxicity with subsequent hepatic and systemic inflammation. The accumulation of pro-inflammatory cytokines and t...

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• Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
• Disease Models, Animal
• Liver
• Liver Disease and Transplantation
• Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
• Liver Diseases, Alcoholic
• Liver physiology and pathology
• Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes

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Literature Corpus work

05a25e9d-1b9b-5675-b082-b36e815be0d2

DOI

10.20944/preprints202403.0030.v1