How binge drinking changes your immune system

In this video, I outline how binge drinking impairs your ability to fight off bacterial, but not viral pathogens.

This is a summary of the scientific research paper: Human binge alcohol intake inhibits TLR4-MyD88 and TLR4-TRIF responses but not TLR3-TRIF pathway: HspA1A and PP1 play selective regulatory roles.

by: Sujatha Muralidharan, Arlene Lim, Donna Catalano, and Pranoti Mandrekar

This is a link to where you can find a copy of the article for yourself to read https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

0:00 Introduction
6:40 Importance
7:02 Human binge alcohol intake inhibits TLR4-MyD88 and TLR4-TRIF responses but not TLR3-TRIF pathway: HspA1A and PP1 play selective regulatory roles
7:24 Results
8:37 Summary
8:53 Significance
9:06 Future Directions

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Keywords: Immunology, macrophage, monocyte, Journal club, Binge drinking, alcohol, immune response

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