Pancreatic function and intestinal absorption in chronic alcoholism.
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It is suggested that subclinical protein malnutrition is one of the underlying causes of malabsorption in chronic alcoholic patients.About:
This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 1970-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 101 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Malabsorption & Normal diet.read more
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The Effects of Alcohol on the Nervous System
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of alcohol on the human nervous system were investigated and the varied mechanisms by which alcohol affects the nervous system serve as the basis for the classification shown in Table 14.1.
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Pathogenesis of Alcohol-Induced Chronic Pancreatitis: Facts, Perceptions, and Misperceptions
TL;DR: The pathogenesis of chronic pancreatitis secondary to chronic alcoholism is not fully understood as mentioned in this paper, and a major obstacle in the understanding of the pathogenesis is the inability to study early lesions of the pancreas and the sequential changes.
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Analysis of pure pancreatic juice in patients with chronic alcoholism.
Hideo Harada,Hideyuki Yabe,Eiji Hanafusa,Itoko Ikubo,Masahiko Takeda,Tenmei Hayashi,Armando Negron,Akinori Ono,Nihei Yamamoto,Kuniki Mishima,Ikuro Kimura +10 more
TL;DR: It was suggested that exocrine dysfunction in chronic alcoholics is reversible in an early stage and that sequence of events with advancement of the stage is hypersecretion, hyperconcentration of protein, normalization of water secretion with a decreases in lipase secretion and maximal bicarbonate concentration, a decrease in amylase and chymotrypsinogen output, and finally a decreasing in flow rate.
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Intraluminal fat digestion in the chronic alcoholic
TL;DR: In the chronic alcoholic insufficient production of pancreatic lipase seems to be responsible for the reversible abnormality in the intraluminal digestion of fat.
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Rapid communication: abnormal suppression of plasma cortisol during the intravenous infusion of dexamethasone to alcoholic patients
TL;DR: Four of the alcoholics failed to show normal suppression of plasma cortisol levels, thus confirming that in some alcoholics there is a disturbance of pituitary‐adrenal function similar to that found in Cushing's disease.
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