NTR 401 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Alcohol Dehydrogenase, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Red Wine
15 May 2016
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Distributed wherever water is found in the body. Moves easily through the cell membranes: damage the cell membranes, liver cell damage (excess alcohol, alcohol (ethanol) metabolism. Depends on gender, race, size, food, physical condition, alcohol content. Amount of alcohol dehydrogenase (adh: women have less than men, women have less water than men. Some ethanol is metabolized by the stomach cells. Majority of the ethanol is metabolized by the liver. Alcohol cannot be stored and has priority in metabolism: low ethanol intake-adh pathway. Refer to the printed ppt slide: high ethanol intake (friday night) Microsomal ethanol oxidizing system (meos) in the cytosol. Used to metabolize drugs, foreign substances, and alcohol. Uses atp in the process (leading to weight loss, skinny people not focus on: meos pathway (microsomal ethanol oxidizing system) eating, ends up using atp) Potential for drug overdose: fate of acetyl-coa (from alcohol metabolism) Often stored centrally: abdominal activity: benefits of.
