The gastrointestinal microbiome: Alcohol effects on the composition of intestinal microbiota

Alcohol Research: Current Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 223-236

  Engen, Phillip A ^a   Green, Stefan J ^b   Voigt, Robin M ^a   Forsyth, Christopher B ^a   Keshavarzian, Ali ^a,c  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abuse; Alcohol consumption; Alcohol use; Alcohol use disorder (AUD); Alcoholic liver disease (ALD); And dependence; Dysbiosis; Gastrointestinal microbiome; Intestinal microbiota; Microbiota; Microbiota analyses; Probiotics; Synbiotics

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PROBIOTIC AGENT; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALCOHOLISM; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; COMPLICATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; DYSBIOSIS; ENDOTOXEMIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIOLOGY; PERMEABILITY;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; DYSBIOSIS; ENDOTOXEMIA; ETHANOL; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; INTESTINES; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; PERMEABILITY; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 84933073666     PISSN: 21683492     EISSN: 21694796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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