Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27373608›Full record

ReviewClinics in liver disease2016

Pathogenesis of Alcoholic Liver Disease.

Winston Dunn, Vijay H Shah

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Review in Clinics in liver disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 106 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
106citing papers in PubMed
7.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

106 citing papers in PubMed, 210 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
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  3. [Fibroblast growth factor 21 improves alcoholic liver disease by regulating gut microbiota in mice].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2026
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  9. Synergistic toxicity in alcohol-associated liver disease and PFAS exposure.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2025
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  12. Impact of GLP-1RA on the Risk of Adverse Liver Outcomes Among Patients With Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease and Type 2 Diabetes.Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver · 2025
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  14. Impact of binge drinking on alcoholic liver disease.Archives of pharmacal research · 2025
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  16. Hepatoprotective effects of diosmin: a narrative review.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2025
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46 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Winston DunnGastroenterology & Hepatology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.
Vijay H ShahGastroenterology Research Unit, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. Electronic address: shah.vijay@mayo.edu.
Mayo Clinic in Arizona · USUniversity of Kansas Medical Center · US

Funding

Training Grant in GastroenterologyT32DK007202 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI GHOSH, PRADIPTA · 1985 to 2022
$7.7M
TREAT-MayoU01AA021788 · NIAAA · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI MALHI, HARMEET, SHAH, VIJAY H. · 2012 to 2022
$4.7M
Molecular Mechanisms of Liver Fibrosis (Diversity Supplement)R37AA021171 · NIAAA · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI VIJAY H. SHAH · 2019 to 2026
$3.0M
Molecular Mechanisms of Liver FibrosisR01AA021171 · NIAAA · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI SHAH, VIJAY H. · 2012 to 2018
$2.5M
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA021171NIAAA NIH HHS R37 AA021171NIAAA NIH HHS U01 AA021788NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK007202
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alcoholic liver disease includes a broad clinical-histological spectrum from simple steatosis, cirrhosis, acute alcoholic hepatitis with or without cirrhosis to hepatocellular carcinoma as a complication of cirrhosis. The pathogenesis of alcoholic liver disease can be conceptually divided into (1) ethanol-mediated liver injury, (2) inflammatory immune response to injury, (3) intestinal permeability and microbiome changes. Corticosteroids may improve outcomes, but this is controversial and probably only impacts short-term survival. New pathophysiology-based therapies are under study, including antibiotics, caspase inhibition, interleukin-22, anakinra, FXR agonist and others. These studies provide hope for better future outcomes for this difficult disease.

Indexed as

AutophagyCarcinoma, HepatocellularEpigenesis, GeneticGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansInflammationLipid MetabolismLiver Diseases, AlcoholicLiver NeoplasmsRisk FactorsAlcoholic hepatitisAlcoholic liver diseaseCorticosteroidsIntestinal permeabilityMicrobiomeSterile necrosis

Identifiers

PMID27373608
PMCPMC4933837
OpenAlexW2319056744

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