...Antonio Zorzano; Luis Ruiz del Arbol; Emilio Herrera 1. Liver biopsies were performed in healthy control subjects and in subjects with alcoholic and non-alcoholic liver disease in order to examine alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH; EC 1.1.1.1) and aldehyde dehydrogenase [ALDH; aldehyde dehydrogenase (NAD...

... were all increased in alcoholic cirrhosis, but the biological half-life of zinc did not differ from controls. 3. Hepatic zinc concentration was reduced in alcoholic cirrhosis and correlated with changes in hepatic alcohol dehydrogenase activity. 4. Patients with alcoholic cirrhosis in this study were...

...J. Dow; N. Krasner; A. Goldberg 1. Hepatic alcohol dehydrogenase activity and leucocyte ascorbic acid content were measured in thirty-five patients with liver disease and in ten control subjects with duodenal ulcer. The patients with liver disease were divided into three groups consisting of non...

...Maureen O'keane; M. R. Moore; A. Goldberg 1. Because it has been shown that a majority of alcoholics are subclinically scorbutic, the metabolism of ethanol was studied in subclinically-scorbutic guinea-pigs. 2. Hepatic alcohol dehydrogenase activity was raised maximally by ethanol within 2 days. 3...