Ashdin Publishing Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research ASHDIN Vol. 3 (2014), Article ID 235837, 10 pages publishing doi:10.4303/jdar/235837 Research Article Chronic-Binge Model of Alcoholic Hepatitis in Long Evans Rats Teresa Ramirez,1 Ming Tong,2 and Suzanne M. de la Monte3 1Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Research Center, Rhode Island Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA 2Department of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA 3Departments of Medicine, Pathology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA Address correspondence to Suzanne M. de la Monte, suzanne delamonte
[email protected] Received 22 November 2013; Revised 8 May 2014; Accepted 2 June 2014 Copyright © 2014 Teresa Ramirez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background. Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is largely a liver disease (ALD) that culminates in cirrhosis and liver histopathologic diagnosis that is based upon the presence of failure [26]. The major cause of ALD is heavy drinking over significant inflammation, hepatocellular lipid accumulation, ballooned prolonged periods [37]. degeneration of hepatocytes, and Mallory-Denk bodies. Underlying biochemical and molecular abnormalities