“…Patients with alcoholic hepatitis have higher circulating TNF-α levels compared to heavy drinkers with inactive cirrhosis, heavy drinkers without liver disease, and persons with neither alcoholism nor liver disease, and high levels correlate with mortality [22]. A large number of animal and human studies have found the serum concentrations of TNF-α, IL-1, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, IFNs, MCP-1, PDGF, and TGF-β to be elevated in both chronic and acute alcohol-induced liver disease [11,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32] (fig. 1).…”