Binge drinking can weaken body's ability to fight off infections for at least 24 hours afterwards, finds a new study.
Stephen Pruett, currently at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Mississippi State University, USA and Ruping Fan of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Centre, USA, focused their study on the effect of heavy drinking on toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), a protein that has an important role in immune system activation.
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Alcohol use disorder or alcoholism is an inability to control drinking. It can cause short term and long term physical, as well as psychological effects on the patient.
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The new study conducted over mouse model has confirm that acute alcohol exposure prevents the body from producing certain key pro-inflammatory cytokines.
The researchers found that ethanol molecules suppress TLR4's usual ability to send signals that would normally trigger the production of inflammatory cytokines.
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"The time frame during which the risk of infection is increased might be at least 24 hours," said Pruett.
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The study is published in the open access journal BMC Immunology.
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