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Alcohol as friend or foe in autoimmune diseases: a role for gut microbiome?
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Who cites it
52 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 76 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Safety and efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation for autoimmune diseases and autoinflammatory diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Pooled it
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- Fatigue in Sjögren's Disease - Integrating Biomedical and Psychosocial Aspects: A Narrative Review.Rheumatology and therapy · 2026Review
- A global-scale framework for quantifying the gut microbiome's mediating role in environmental and personal determinants of health.Eco-Environment & Health · 2026Article
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- Chronic alcohol consumption compromises gut barrier integrity and promotes endotoxemia: Implications for sepsis susceptibility in immunocompromised hosts.Animal models and experimental medicine · 2026Article
- Alcohol Intake-Induced Aggravation of Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome is Associated with Reduced Gut Microbiota-Driven Short-Chain Fatty Acid Propionate and Butyrate.The world journal of men's health · 2026Article
- High-Dose Ethanol-Induced Immunosuppression Modulates Sex-Specific Disease Outcomes in a Murine Model of Multiple Sclerosis.Biomolecules · 2026Article
- Causal Association of Dietary Habits With Thyroid Diseases: Univariate and Multivariate Mendelian Randomization Studies.Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Association of a data-driven nutrient risk score with incident rheumatoid arthritis in UK Biobank adults: a prospective cohort study.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Modifiable risk factors and skin cancers: a multi-omics Mendelian randomization study from causal inference to drug target discovery.Frontiers in genetics · 2026Article
- Shared signatures of alcohol-associated dysbiosis in humans and non-human primates.Current research in microbial sciences · 2026Article
- Inverse association of alcohol consumption patterns with constipation and diarrhea: a population-based cross-sectional study.BMC gastroenterology · 2025Article
- Alcohol, aging, and the gut microbiome: Intersections of immunity, barrier dysfunction, and disease.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2025Review
- Dental and oral symptoms and the risk of incident systemic lupus erythematosus: a prospective study of 438,555 UK biobank participants.BMC oral health · 2025Article
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- Environmental and Lifestyle Factors in the Risk and Prevention of Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2025Review
- Lactiplantibacillus plantarum Lp05 protects against ethanol-induced liver injury in zebrafish through metabolic and microbiota modulation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Bidirectional Interplay Between Substances of Abuse and Gut Microbiome Homeostasis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Alcohol is well known for promoting systemic inflammation and aggravating multiple chronic health conditions. Thus, alcohol may also be expected to serve as a risk factor in autoimmune diseases. However, emerging data from human and animal studies suggest that alcohol may in fact be protective in autoimmune diseases. These studies point toward alcohol's complex dose-dependent relationship in autoimmune diseases as well as potential modulation by duration and type of alcohol consumption, cultural background and sex. In this review, we will explore alcohol's pro- and anti-inflammatory properties in human and animal autoimmune diseases, including autoimmune diabetes, thyroid disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis. We will also discuss potential mechanisms of alcohol's anti-inflammatory effects mediated by the gut microbiome.
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