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  • Title: Non-uniformity of blood ethanol elimination: its exaggeration after chronic consumption.
    Author: Salaspuro MP, Lieber CS.
    Journal: Ann Clin Res; 1978 Oct; 10(5):294-7. PubMed ID: 104651.
    Abstract:
    In baboons blood ethanol disappearance was 11.6% faster at high ethanol (HE) concentrations (45-20 mM) than at low ethanol concentrations (LE) (15-5 mM). The feeding of alcohol in a liquid diet for three months or up to five years augmented the difference between HE and LE to 14 and 28.6% respectively. These results were confirmed in a preliminary experiment with a human volunteer given ethanol for four weeks under metabolic ward conditions. The findings are in favour of the existence and induction of a non-ADH high Km pathway for ethanol oxidation. The common medicolegal practice of calculation previous blood-ethanol levels by linear extrapolation should be re-considered.
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