Luzheng Xue

Jun 29, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Liang Chen |Yuefeng Huang |Hiroyuki Nagashima |Luzheng Xue

IntroductionThe most common health problems associated with alcohol use disorder (AUD) include liver steatosis and cirrhosis (1, 2), cardiomyopathies (3) and nerve damage (i.e., neuropathies) (4). Recent evidence indicates that the lung is also adversely affected by alcohol abuse. Chronic alcohol ingestion may render the lung susceptible to fibrosis in the mouse model of bleomycin-induced acute lung injury (ALI) (5), pulmonary infections (6), and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) (7).