ReviewCancers2021
Ethanol-Induced Cell Damage Can Result in the Development of Oral Tumors.
Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- Exploring oral microbiome in oral squamous cell carcinoma across environment-associated sample types.Microbiology spectrum · 2025Pooled it
- Prevention of HNSCC by chewing gum delivery of enzymes/antimicrobials to reduce carcinogenic acetaldehyde produced by pathogenic microbes.Molecular therapy. Oncology · 2026Article
- Effects of ethanol and acetaldehyde on multi-organ genomic mutation landscapes.Cell biology and toxicology · 2026Article
- Association Between Oral Lichen Planus and Non-Oral Cancers: A Multicentre Case-Control SIPMO Study.Oral diseases · 2026Article
- Microbial crosstalk along the oral-gut axis: organ-specific oncogenic adaptations of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Fusobacterium nucleatum.Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Review
- Histopathological and ultrastructure alterations in tongue and parotid tissues of rats in consequence to long-term alcohol intoxication and ameliorative role of 10-dehydrogingerdione.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Microbial dysbiosis and host-microbe interactions in proliferative verrucous leukoplakia: insights into carcinogenic potential.Archives of microbiology · 2025Review
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- Mechanistic insights into alcohol-induced DNA crosslink repair by Slx4-Xpf-Ercc1 nuclease complex in the Fanconi anaemia pathway.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Genome-scale multi-organ analysis of mutagenic effects of ethanol and acetaldehyde in Sprague Dawley rats.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Genetic Polymorphisms ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
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- The complexity of tobacco smoke-induced mutagenesis in head and neck cancer.Nature genetics · 2025Article
- Does a link exist between oral microbiota and oral squamous cell carcinoma? A review of current insights.Journal of oral microbiology · 2025Review
- Salivary Metabolic Pathway Alterations in Brazilian E-Cigarette Users.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Mechanisms and Potential Clinical Implications of Oral Microbiome in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023Review
- Ethanol induces replication fork stalling and membrane stress in immortalized laryngeal cells.iScience · 2023Article
- The Potential Association between E2F2, MDM2 and p16 Protein Concentration and Selected Sociodemographic and Clinicopathological Characteristics of Patients with Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.Current issues in molecular biology · 2023Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Alcohol consumption is an underestimated risk factor for the development of precancerous lesions in the oral cavity. Although alcohol is a well-accepted recreational drug, 26.4% of all lip and oral cavity cancers worldwide are related to heavy drinking. Molecular mechanisms underlying this carcinogenic effect of ethanol are still under investigation. An important damaging effect comes from the first metabolite of ethanol, being acetaldehyde. Concentrations of acetaldehyde detected in the oral cavity are relatively high due to the metabolization of ethanol by oral microbes. Acetaldehyde can directly damage the DNA by the formation of mutagenic DNA adducts and interstrand crosslinks. Additionally, ethanol is known to affect epigenetic methylation and acetylation patterns, which are important regulators of gene expression. Ethanol-induced hypomethylation can activate the expression of oncogenes which subsequently can result in malignant transformation. The recent identification of ethanol-related mutational signatures emphasizes the role of acetaldehyde in alcohol-associated carcinogenesis. However, not all signatures associated with alcohol intake also relate to acetaldehyde. This finding highlights that there might be other effects of ethanol yet to be discovered.
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