Intravenous ethanol infusions can mimic the time course of breath alcohol concentrations following oral alcohol administration in healthy volunteers

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 938-944

  Ramchandani, Vijay A ^a   Plawecki, Martin ^b   Li, Ting Kai ^a   O'Connor, Sean ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol clamp; Breath alcohol concentration; Healthy social drinkers; Pharmacokinetic variability; Physiologically based pharmacokinetic model; Route of administration

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY WATER; BREATHING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME TO MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; BREATH ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PROCEDURES; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BREATH TESTS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64549102608     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.00906.x     Document Type: Article

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