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Genetic polymorphisms of alcohol metabolizing enzymes.

D.P Agarwal
- 01 Jan 2001 - 
- Vol. 49, Iss: 9, pp 703-709
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Recent advances in the understanding of the functional polymorphisms of ADH, ALDH and CYP2E1 and their metabolic, physiologic and clinical correlations are presented.
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This article is published in Pathologie Biologie.The article was published on 2001-01-01. It has received 157 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Alcohol dehydrogenase & Ethanol metabolism.

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‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?

TL;DR: Mendelian randomization provides new opportunities to test causality and demonstrates how investment in the human genome project may contribute to understanding and preventing the adverse effects on human health of modifiable exposures.
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Overview: how is alcohol metabolized by the body?

TL;DR: Alcohol is eliminated from the body by various metabolic mechanisms, and variations in the genes for these enzymes have been found to influence alcohol consumption, alcohol-related tissue damage, and alcohol dependence.
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Aldehyde sources, metabolism, molecular toxicity mechanisms, and possible effects on human health.

TL;DR: The human health risks from clinical and animal research studies are reviewed, including aldehydes as haptens in allergenic hypersensitivity diseases, respiratory allergies, and idiosyncratic drug toxicity; the potential carcinogenic risks of the carbonyl body burden.
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Herb-drug interactions: a literature review.

TL;DR: An extensive review of the literature identified reported herb-drug interactions with clinical significance, although the underlying mechanisms for the altered drug effects and/or concentrations by concomitant herbal medicines are yet to be determined.
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Innovative preparation of curcumin for improved oral bioavailability.

TL;DR: THERACURMIN exhibited an inhibitory action against alcohol intoxication after drinking in humans, as evidenced by the reduced acetaldehyde concentration of the blood, and shows a much higher bioavailability than currently available preparations.
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Human aldehyde dehydrogenase gene family

TL;DR: The phylogenic tree constructed of 56 ALDH sequences of humans, animals, fungi, protozoa and eubacteria, suggests that the present-day human ALDH genes were derived from four ancestral genes that existed prior to the divergence of Eubacteria and Eukaryotes.
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Interaction between the Functional Polymorphisms of the Alcohol-Metabolism Genes in Protection against Alcoholism

TL;DR: It is suggested that protection afforded by the ADH2*2 allele may be independent of that afforded by ALDH2* 2, and that individuals carrying one or two copies of ADH 2 and a single copy of ALDH 2*2 had the lowest risk for alcoholism, as compared with the ADh2*1/*1 and ALDH1*1 genotype.
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Microsomal ethanol-oxidizing system (MEOS): the first 30 years (1968-1998)--a review.

TL;DR: Enhanced ethanol oxidation is associated with cross-induction of the metabolism of other drugs, resulting in drug tolerance, and there is increased conversion of known hepatotoxic agents (such as CCl4) to toxic metabolites, which may explain the enhanced susceptibility of alcoholics to the adverse effects of industrial solvents.
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Racial differences in alcohol sensitivity: A new hypothesis

TL;DR: The data suggest that the initial alcohol sensitivity in Japanese might be due to a delayed oxidation of acetaldehyde rather than its higher than normal production by atypical alcohol dehydrogenase.
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