Article
Chronic alcohol consumption dysregulates innate immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in the lung
2023-05-03
Abstract excerpt
Alcohol consumption is widespread with over half of the individuals over 18 years of age in the U.S. reporting alcohol use in the last 30 days. Moreover, 9 million Americans engaged in binge or chronic heavy drinking (CHD) in 2019. CHD negatively impacts pathogen clearance and tissue repair, including in the respiratory tract, thereby increasing susceptibility to infection. Although, it has been hypothesized that...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 96292b7b-9f98-5148-a526-1a37debd3f0e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.05.02.539139
