Ethanol Metabolites: Their Role in the Assessment of Alcohol Intake

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2060-2072

  Wurst, Friedrich M ^a,b   Thon, Natasha ^a   Yegles, Michel ^c   Schrück, Alexandra ^d   Preuss, Ulrich W ^e   Weinmann, Wolfgang ^d  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE SANTÉ   (Luxembourg)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol Intake; Ethanol Metabolites; Ethyl Glucuronide; Ethyl Sulfate; Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters; Phosphatidylethanol

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARBOHYDRATE DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN; ETHYL GLUCURONIDE; ETHYL SULFATE; FATTY ACID ESTER; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBOHYDRATE-DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN; GLUCURONIC ACID; TRANSFERRIN;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL METABOLISM; ALCOHOLISM; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HAIR LEVEL; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINE LEVEL; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCURONATES; HUMANS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 84945471442     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12851     Document Type: Review

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