title: Alcohol Lowers Your (Intestinal) Inhibitions.
abstract: Alcohol causes microbiota dysbiosis and breaches intestinal integrity, resulting in liver inflammation and ultimately cirrhosis. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Wang et al. (2016) demonstrate that ethanol suppresses the intestinal anti-microbial response. This enables gut bacteria to trespass to the liver and thus exacerbates the disease progression.
authors: Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Department, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
authors: Namrata
authors: N
authors: Iyer
authors: Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Department, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA. Electronic address: shipra_vaishnava@brown.edu.
authors: Shipra
authors: S
authors: Vaishnava
mesh_terms: D064806:Dysbiosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D000431:Ethanol; D006801:Humans; D007422:Intestines / Q000382:microbiology*; D008099:Liver; D064307:Microbiota
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol