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Re:Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s immune landscape by Jailbird on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @11:45AM (#25138942)
It wasn't obvious how much use or how chronic the use had to be - is it implied to be chronic heavy drinking or just the glass of wine a day that causes the changes?
Re:Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s immune landscape by lstamour on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @12:18PM (#25139444)
Apparently enough alcohol exposure to show addictive behaviour: the study used mice with the "2BC-CIE" exposure method:

> To induce alcohol dependence, we used the two bottle choice - chronic intermittent ethanol vapor exposure (2BC-CIE) paradigm, as previously described (Patel et al. 2019). This method consistently produces alcohol dependence in C57BL/6J mice (Becker and Lopez 2004; Bajo et al. 2016; Huitron-Resendiz et al. 2018), as exhibited by escalated alcohol intake, anxiety-like behavior and reward deficits. Briefly, mice were exposed to limited access alcohol (15% w/v) and water - two bottle choice (2BC) sessions followed by either chronic intermittent alcohol (CIE) exposure in vapor chambers (La Jolla Alcohol Research, La Jolla, CA), to induce alcohol dependence (dependent mice) or control air exposure (non-dependent control mice) in identical chambers. Naïve mice were not exposed to any alcohol either by drinking or vapor exposure.

A diagram on a similar study can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-General-CIE-protocol-f... - for the diagram from this study, see page 4.

Re:Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s immune landscape by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @11:50AM (#25139018)
10% of Americans drink 90% of the alcohol. They're doing a bottle of wine a night.
Re:Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s immune landscape by alangibson on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @12:50PM (#25139870)
Implying a bottle of wine a night is anything other than exactly the right amount
Re:Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s immune landscape by Nuzzerino on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @11:58AM (#25139144)
How does this answer the question?
Re:Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s immune landscape by bloqs on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @12:14PM (#25139388)
It doesnt, it's just a dramatic one liner.
Re:Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s immune landscape by boringg on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:20PM (#25141920)
A dramatic, unsubstantiated, one liner.
Re:Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s immune landscape by stevedt on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:32PM (#25142083)
https://image3.slideserve.com/6300839/cumulative-distributio...

this says 10% of the people drink 60% of the alcohol