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Department of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106–4906
The innate immune system is responsible for the rapid, initial response of the organism to potentially dangerous stresses, including pathogens, tissue injury, and malignancy. Pattern-recognition receptors of the toll-like receptor (TLR) family expressed by macrophages provide a first line of defense against microbial invasion. Activation of these receptors results in a stimulus-specific expression of genes required to control the infection, including the production of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, followed by the recruitment of neutrophils to the site of infection. The early stages in the development of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) follow a pattern characteristic of an innate immune response. Kupffer cells, the resident macrophages in the liver, are activated in response to bacterial endotoxins (lipopolysaccharide, LPS), leading to the production of inflammatory and fibrogenic cytokines, reactive oxygen species, as well as the recruitment of neutrophils to the liver. One mechanism by which chronic ethanol can turn the highly regulated innate immune response into a pathway of disease is by disrupting the signal transduction cascades mediating the innate immune response. Recent studies have identified specific modules in the TLR-4 signaling cascade that are disrupted after chronic ethanol exposure, including CD14 and the mitogen-activated protein kinase family members, ERK1/2 and p38. Enhanced activation of these TLR-4 dependent signaling pathways after chronic ethanol likely contributes to the development of alcoholic liver disease.
Key Words: ethanol • alcohol • liver • macrophage • Kupffer cells • endotoxin • toll-like receptor • mitogen-activated protein kinase NF
B
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