Alcohol and inflammatory responses: summary of the 2013 Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting

Niya L Morris; Jill A Ippolito; Brenda J Curtis; Michael M Chen; Scott L Friedman; Ian N Hines; Georges E Haddad; Sulie L Chang; Lou Ann Brown; Thomas J Waldschmidt; Pranoti Mandrekar; Elizabeth J Kovacs; Mashkoor A Choudhry

doi:10.1016/j.alcohol.2014.07.018

Alcohol and inflammatory responses: summary of the 2013 Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting

Alcohol. 2015 Feb;49(1):1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2014.07.018. Epub 2014 Nov 3.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Alcohol Research Program, Burn and Shock Trauma Research Institute, Department of Surgery, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL 60153, USA; Integrative Cell Biology Program, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL 60153, USA.
² Alcohol Research Program, Burn and Shock Trauma Research Institute, Department of Surgery, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL 60153, USA.
³ Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
⁴ Department of Nutrition Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA.
⁵ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA.
⁶ Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 07079, USA.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
⁸ Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
⁹ Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
¹⁰ Alcohol Research Program, Burn and Shock Trauma Research Institute, Department of Surgery, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL 60153, USA; Integrative Cell Biology Program, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL 60153, USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL 60153, USA.
¹¹ Alcohol Research Program, Burn and Shock Trauma Research Institute, Department of Surgery, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL 60153, USA; Integrative Cell Biology Program, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL 60153, USA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus, Maywood, IL 60153, USA. Electronic address: mchoudhry@luc.edu.

Abstract

Loyola University Chicago, Health Sciences Campus in Maywood, Illinois hosted the 18th annual Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) meeting on November 22, 2013. This year's meeting emphasized alcohol's effect on inflammatory responses in diverse disease states and injury conditions. The meeting consisted of three plenary sessions demonstrating the adverse effects of alcohol, specifically, liver inflammation, adverse systemic effects, and alcohol's role in infection and immunology. Researchers also presented insight on modulation of microRNAs and stress proteins following alcohol consumption. Additionally, researchers revealed sex- and concentration-dependent differences in alcohol-mediated pathologies.

Keywords: Alcohol; Infection; Inflammation; Tissue injury.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Alcohol Drinking / immunology
Alcohol Drinking / metabolism*
Alcoholism / diagnosis
Alcoholism / immunology
Alcoholism / metabolism*
Animals
Congresses as Topic*
Humans
Inflammation / diagnosis
Inflammation / immunology
Inflammation / metabolism
Inflammation Mediators / immunology
Inflammation Mediators / metabolism*
Public Opinion*

Substances

Inflammation Mediators

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Substances

Grants and funding