When the vascular lining loosens, dysfunctional macrophages permit pathological bacterial translocation in cirrhosis

Gut. 2026 Jan 2:gutjnl-2025-337412. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2025-337412. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Sebastiaan De Schepper¹, Reiner Wiest²

Affiliations

¹ Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie Center for Molecular Neurology, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium sebastiaan.deschepper@uantwerpen.be.
² UVCM Gastroenterology, University Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

PMID: 41482457
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2025-337412

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Keywords: BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CIRRHOSIS; MACROPHAGES.