Roles of Kupffer cells in alcoholic liver disease

This article summarizes presentations at the 2004 International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism held in Heidelberg/Mannheim, Germany. The organizers and chairpersons were Yoshiyuki Takei and Gavin E Arteel. The presentations were on 1) Kupffer cell-derived mediators involved in alcoholic liver disease: reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, by Gavin E. Arteel; 2) Kupffer cell-derived mediators in alcoholic liver disease: tumor necrosis factor-a, by Laura E. Nagy; 3) metformin prevents acute alcohol-induced fat accumulation in mouse liver, by Ina Bergheim; 4) gender difference in alcoholic liver disease, by Nobuyuki Enomoto; and 5) Kupffer cells as a therapeutic target of alcoholic liver disease, by Yoshiyuki Takei.