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SUBMITTER: Chang B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6063768 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chang Binxia B Hao Shuli S Zhang Longyu L Gao Miaomiao M Sun Ying Y Huang Ang A Teng Guangju G Li Baosen B Crabb David W DW Kusumanchi Praveen P Wang Li L Liangpunsakul Suthat S Zou Zhengsheng Z
The American journal of the medical sciences 20180320 1
<h4>Background</h4>Only a subset of patients with excessive alcohol use develop alcoholic liver disease (ALD), though the exact mechanism is not completely understood. Once ingested, alcohol is metabolized by 2 key oxidative enzymes, alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH). There are 2 major ALDH isoforms, cytosolic and mitochondrial, encoded by the aldehyde ALDH1 and ALDH2 genes, respectively. The ALDH2 gene was hypothesized to alter genetic susceptibility to alcohol depen ...[more]