Alcohol’s effects on lung health and immunity

Alcohol Research: Current Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 199-208

  Simet, Samantha M ^a   Sisson, Joseph H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse; Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Alcohol use; Alcohol use disorder; Alveolar macrophages; And dependence; Immunity; Impaired immune response; Innate immune response; Lung disorders; Lymphocytes; Neutrophils; Pathophysiology; Pneumonia; Pulmonary infection; Respiratory syncytial virus infection; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ALCOHOLISM; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COMPLICATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUNG; LUNG ALVEOLUS MACROPHAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LUNG; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84933059712     PISSN: 21683492     EISSN: 21694796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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