Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is the most prevalent type of chronic liver disease worldwide.
ALD can progress from alcoholic fatty liver (AFL) to alcoholic steatohepatitis (ASH), which is …

The excessive intake of alcohol is a serious public health problem, especially given the
severe damage provoked by chronic or prenatal exposure to alcohol that affects many …

Background: The enhanced vulnerability of women to develop alcohol‐related diseases
may be due to their higher blood alcohol levels after drinking, but the mechanism for this …

Since 1975, Robert Julien's A Primer of Drug Action has been the definitive guide to the
effects of psychoactive drugs on the brain and on behavior. Now fully updated, this popular …

Metabolic processes utilize a variety of differing and contrasting biochemical routes to
enable synthesis of degradation and activation or deactivation of substances; in addition …

Variability in the rate and extent of absorption, distribution and elimination of ethanol has
important ramifications in clinical and legal medicine. The speed of absorption of ethanol …

Ethanol is widely consumed and is associated with an increasing global health burden.
Several reviews have addressed the effects of ethanol and its oxidative metabolite …

The pharmacokinetics of alcohol determines the time course of alcohol concentration in
blood after the ingestion of an alcoholic beverage and the degree of exposure of organs to …

Over recent decades alcohol consumption has increased among those who are older than
65 years. Alcohol is more toxic in the ageing organism because of changes in its …

The ethanol contained in alcoholic beverages is rapidly absorbed from the gastrointestinal
tract and the maximum blood‐alcohol concentration (BAC) is usually reached between 10 …