Evidence map›Paper›PMID 24313165›Full record

ReviewAlcohol research : current reviews2013

Epigenetic events in liver cancer resulting from alcoholic liver disease.

Samuel W French

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Review in Alcohol research : current reviews, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Epigenetics of alcohol-related liver diseases.JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2022
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  12. Enzymatic and nonenzymatic protein acetylations control glycolysis process in liver diseases.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2019
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  14. Human Gut Microbiota and Gastrointestinal Cancer.Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics · 2018
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  18. Role of the microbiome in non-gastrointestinal cancers.World journal of clinical oncology · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samuel W FrenchDepartment of Pathology, Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
Harbor–UCLA Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epigenetic mechanisms play an extensive role in the development of liver cancer (i.e., hepatocellular carcinoma [HCC]) associated with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) as well as in liver disease associated with other conditions. For example, epigenetic mechanisms, such as changes in the methylation and/or acetylation pattern of certain DNA regions or of the histone proteins around which the DNA is wrapped, contribute to the reversion of normal liver cells into progenitor and stem cells that can develop into HCC. Chronic exposure to beverage alcohol (i.e., ethanol) can induce all of these epigenetic changes. Thus, ethanol metabolism results in the formation of compounds that can cause changes in DNA methylation and interfere with other components of the normal processes regulating DNA methylation. Alcohol exposure also can alter histone acetylation/deacetylation and methylation patterns through a variety of mechanisms and signaling pathways. Alcohol also acts indirectly on another molecule called toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) that is a key component in a crucial regulatory pathway in the cells and whose dysregulation is involved in the development of HCC. Finally, alcohol use regulates an epigenetic mechanism involving small molecules called miRNAs that control transcriptional events and the expression of genes important to ALD.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticCarcinoma, HepatocellularCentral Nervous System DepressantsEthanolLiver Diseases, AlcoholicLiver NeoplasmsCentral Nervous System DepressantsEthanol

Identifiers

PMID24313165
PMCPMC3860418
OpenAlexW137529361

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