PMID- 34884492 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20211217 LR - 20230921 IS - 1422-0067 (Electronic) IS - 1422-0067 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 23 DP - 2021 Nov 24 TI - Host Factors in Dysregulation of the Gut Barrier Function during Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease. LID - 10.3390/ijms222312687 [doi] LID - 12687 AB - Chronic alcohol consumption and alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) represent a major public health problem worldwide. Only a minority of patients with an alcohol-use disorder (AUD) develop severe forms of liver disease (e.g., steatohepatitis and fibrosis) and finally progress to the more advanced stages of ALD, such as severe alcohol-associated hepatitis and decompensated cirrhosis. Emerging evidence suggests that gut barrier dysfunction is multifactorial, implicating microbiota changes, alterations in the intestinal epithelium, and immune dysfunction. This failing gut barrier ultimately allows microbial antigens, microbes, and metabolites to translocate to the liver and into systemic circulation. Subsequent activation of immune and inflammatory responses contributes to liver disease progression. Here we review the literature about the disturbance of the different host defense mechanisms linked to gut barrier dysfunction, increased microbial translocation, and impairment of liver and systemic inflammatory responses in the different stages of ALD. FAU - Maccioni, Luca AU - Maccioni L AD - Laboratory of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, UCLouvain, Unversite Catholique de Louvain, 1200 Brussels, Belgium. FAU - Leclercq, Isabelle A AU - Leclercq IA AD - Laboratory of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, UCLouvain, Unversite Catholique de Louvain, 1200 Brussels, Belgium. FAU - Schnabl, Bernd AU - Schnabl B AD - Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. AD - Department of Medicine, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA 92161, USA. FAU - Starkel, Peter AU - Starkel P AD - Laboratory of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, UCLouvain, Unversite Catholique de Louvain, 1200 Brussels, Belgium. AD - Department of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, 1200 Brussels, Belgium. LA - eng GR - P30 DK120515/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AA024726/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 AA24726; P30 DK120515; P50 AA011999/NH/NIH HHS/United States GR - P50 AA011999/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20211124 PL - Switzerland TA - Int J Mol Sci JT - International journal of molecular sciences JID - 101092791 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Dysbiosis/microbiology/*pathology MH - *Gastrointestinal Microbiome MH - Humans MH - Liver Diseases, Alcoholic/*complications/microbiology PMC - PMC8657823 OTO - NOTNLM OT - chronic alcohol consumption OT - gut-liver axis OT - inflammation OT - intestinal barrier OT - intestinal immunity COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2021/12/11 06:00 MHDA- 2021/12/18 06:00 PMCR- 2021/11/24 CRDT- 2021/12/10 01:03 PHST- 2021/10/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/11/18 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/11/23 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/12/10 01:03 [entrez] PHST- 2021/12/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/12/18 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/11/24 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - ijms222312687 [pii] AID - ijms-22-12687 [pii] AID - 10.3390/ijms222312687 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Nov 24;22(23):12687. doi: 10.3390/ijms222312687.