Disposition and first-pass metabolism of ethanol in humans: Is it gastric or hepatic and does it depend on gender?

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 503-513

  Ammon, Eva ^a   Schäfer, Christian ^a   Hofmann, Ute ^a   Klotz, Ulrich ^a  

^a DR MARGARETE FISCHER BOSCH INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG DISPOSITION; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHARMACOKINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DUODENUM; ETHANOL; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STOMACH; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029894677     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-9236(96)90178-2     Document Type: Article

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