Reduced fatty acid ethyl ester synthase activity in the white blood cells of alcoholics

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 268-274

  Gorski, Norbert P ^a   Nouraldin, Hazem ^a   Dube, David M ^a   Preffer, Frederic I ^a   Dombkowski, David M ^a   Villa, Ellen M ^a   Lewandrowski, Kent B ^a   Weiss, Roger D ^b,c   Hufford, Cathryn ^b,c   Laposata, Michael ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Alcoholism; Ethanol; Fatty Acids; Natural Killer Cells

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FATTY ACID ESTER; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE;

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MONOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ETHANOL; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0029871927     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1996.tb01639.x     Document Type: Article

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