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Elevated levels of hemoglobin-associated acetaldehyde related to alcohol drinking in the atypical genotype of low Km aldehyde dehydrogenase.
Cancer research - 1 Apr 1997
Takeshita T, Kawai T, Morimoto K
Abstract excerpt
Acetaldehyde is suspected to be the ultimate carcinogen in alcohol-related carcinogenesis. The atypical genotypes of low Km aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) have higher blood concentrations of free acetaldehyde after drinking alcohol. We measured levels of acetaldehyde reversibly bound to hemoglobi...
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