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  • The Disease Model of Addict...
    Tsermpini, Evangelia Eirini; Goričar, Katja; Kores Plesničar, Blanka; Plemenitaš Ilješ, Anja; Dolžan, Vita

    Antioxidants, 01/2024, Letnik: 13, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    Oxidative stress and neuroinflammation are involved in the pathogenesis of alcohol addiction. However, little is known regarding the effect of genetic, behavioral, psychological, and environmental sources of origin on the inflammation and oxidative stress pathways of patients with alcohol addiction. Our study aimed to evaluate the impact of selected common functional single-nucleotide polymorphisms in inflammation and oxidative stress genes on alcohol addiction, and common comorbid psychosymptomatology. Our study included 89 hospitalized alcohol-addicted patients and 93 healthy individuals, all Slovenian males. Their DNA was isolated from peripheral blood and patients were genotyped for rs705379, rs705381, rs854560, and rs662, rs4880, rs1050450, rs1143623, rs16944, and rs1071676, rs1800795, rs2228145, and miR146a rs2910164. Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney tests were used for the additive and dominant genetic models, respectively. Our findings suggested the involvement of rs1800795 in alcohol addiction. Moreover, our data indicated that the genetic variability of and , as well as and may be related to comorbid psychosymptomatology, revealing a potential indirect means of association of both the oxidative stress and inflammation pathways.