Article
Arylsulfatase A variants in patients with alcoholism.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Jan 2000
Hulyalkar A R, Nora R, Manowitz P
Abstract excerpt
Leukocytes from 200 mentally ill patients and 100 normal controls were analyzed for electrophoretic variants of arylsulfatase A. Four different variant forms were found in 15 subjects. There is a relatively high occurrence of the arylsulfatase A variants in patients with alcoholism. Twenty-one per cent (12/56) of patients with alcoholism have a variant enzyme. Only one of the 100 normal controls has a variant...
Topics
- Alcoholism
- Cerebroside-Sulfatase
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Leukocytes
- Psychoses, Alcoholic
- Risk
- Schizophrenia
- Sulfatases