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Abstract
High blood acetaldehyde levels in alcoholics after ethanol ingestion are due to reduced acetaldehyde oxidation rather than to an increased rate of its formation from ethanol. This is associated with low hepatic acetaldehyde dehydrogenase activity in alcoholic subjects and may represent a specific abnormality in them.Entities:
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Year: 1982 PMID: 7106618 PMCID: PMC1419765 DOI: 10.1136/gut.23.9.729
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Gut ISSN: 0017-5749 Impact factor: 23.059