The role of thiamine deficiency in alcoholic brain disease

Alcohol Research and Health

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 134-142

  Martin, Peter R ^a   Singleton, Charles K ^b   Hiller Sturmhöfel, Susanne ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Alcohol Research and Health

Author keywords

Alcoholic brain syndrome; Alcoholic cerebellar degeneration; AODR (alcohol and other drug related) structural brain damage; Chronic AODE (alcohol and other drug effects); Thiamine deficiency; Wernicke's encephalopathy; Wernicke korsakoff psychosis

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARBOHYDRATE; DNA; PROTEIN; THIAMINE;

ABSORPTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MOLECULE; NUTRIENT; NUTRITION; REVIEW; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; ANIMAL; BRAIN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; THIAMINE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 4143136643     PISSN: 0090838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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