Acetaldehyde metabolism: differences between UChA and UChB rats.

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Acetaldehyde metabolism: differences between UChA and UChB rats.

Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) - 1 Nov 1994

Tampier L, Quintanilla M E, Mardones J

Abstract excerpt

In order to explore the influence of acetaldehyde (AcH) metabolism on the voluntary ethanol intake of genetically low (UChA) and high (UChB) ethanol consumer rats, the AcH disappearance rate (ADR) after incubation with homogenates and subcellular fractions from liver and brain was determined. In...

Topics

Acetaldehyde
Alcoholism
Aldehyde Dehydrogenase
Animals
Brain
Disulfiram
Isoenzymes
Liver
Male
Metabolic Clearance Rate
Phenotype
Rats
Rats, Wistar
Selection, Genetic
Subcellular Fractions

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