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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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Autores principales: Wood, Stephen, Pithadia, Ravi, Rehman, Tooba, Zhang, Lijuan, Plichta, Jennifer, Radek, Katherine A., Forsyth, Christopher, Keshavarzian, Ali, Shafikhani, Sasha H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3554638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23358457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054646