Sentences with phrase «of alcohol dehydrogenase»

Women generally have lower levels of alcohol dehydrogenase, an enzyme in the liver that metabolizes alcohol, and therefore are advised to drink smaller amounts.

Emerging research suggests that curcumin, the active compound in turmeric, may effectively support the activity of alcohol dehydrogenase in a way that protects against liver damage.

Previous work on gender differences in alcohol dependence has shown that women get drunk on fewer drinks than men owing to a deficit of alcohol dehydrogenase, the enzyme in the stomach lining that breaks down booze.

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The mutation in alcohol dehydrogenase would have protected those who had it from some of the nefarious effects of alcohol and alcoholism.

Bierut: So there are multiple different pathways to alcoholism and some of them are pharmacologic - type pathways of how a person metabolizes alcohol — how they respond to it with the alcohol dehydrogenase or acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, two important enzymes that are involved in the metabolism of alcohol, and we would kind of think [of] that as a more direct alcohol - related route to the development of alcoholism.

Steve: This is really interesting material, I think, because perhaps many of the listeners are familiar with older research, for example, that found that the aldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme is not available for certain people, and that for them, drinking in excess is really uncomfortable, so they tend not to, but that's more of a direct genetic biochemical kind of a system related to the alcohol molecule ultimately as it gets metabolized.

A study of the interplay between peer drinking and the functional polymorphism rs1229984 in the alcohol dehydrogenase 1B gene (ADH1B) in the development of adolescent drinking milestones has found that peer drinking reduces the protective effects of an ADH1B variant.

10 Chemistry of a cheap date: Women produce only 60 percent as much alcohol dehydrogenase, the enzyme that neutralizes booze, as men do.

Among East Asians, the researchers found a strong signal of selection in the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) cluster, the enzymes that break down alcohol.

One of the enzymes that facilitates this process is alcohol dehydrogenase, which is coded for by the ADH gene.

Other groups suggested that the sequestration of heme or the interaction between Aß and the Aß - binding alcohol dehydrogenase might explain the observed complex IV deficits [64].

Adding insult to injury: In women, the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH)-- which breaks down alcohol in the stomach — can work less efficiently than in men, says Scott Walters, PhD, associate professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health.

activates alcohol dehydrogenase, the enzyme needed for transformation of hydroxylated toxins from their alcohol form to an intermediate (often more toxic) aldehyde form