Biological Study of Alcohol Dependence Syndrome with Reference to Ethnic Difference: Report of a WHO Collaborative Study
作者:
Itaru Yamashita,
Tetsuro Ohmori,
Tsukasa Koyama,
Hideki Mori,
Sergey Boyadjive,
Paul Kielholz,
Markus Gastpar,
Dris Moussaoui,
M. Bouzekraoui,
Brij B. Sethi,
Baltazar V. Reyes,
Marat E. Vartanian,
Juan R. Fuente,
G. Allen German,
Nenad Bohacek,
Norman Sartorius,
Peter Morozov,
Leonid L. Prilipko,
期刊:
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
(WILEY Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 44,
issue 1
页码: 79-84
ISSN:1323-1316
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1819.1990.tb00444.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: alcoholism;alcohol metabolism;aldehyde dehydrogenase deficiency;ethnic difference
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Summary:Inherited deficiency of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase type I (ALDH‐I) was found in 43% (50/117) of normals, 33% (27/82) of schizophrenics, but only 4% (5/113) of alcoholics among Japanese. The ALDH‐I deficiency was never found, however, in 146 mostly schizophrenic subjects from Europe (Basel, Moscow, Zagreb), Australia (Nedlands), India (Lucknow), Morocco (Casablanca) and Mexico (Mexico City). It was demonstrated that ALDH‐I deficiency produces the flushing syndrome which inhibits the development of drinking habit and alcohol dependence syn
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