Abstract
This article summarizes content proceedings of a symposium held at the 2004 International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism Congress in Mannheim, Germany. The chairs were Boris Tabakoff and Friedrich M. Wurst. The presentations were (1) Genetic associations with alcoholism and affective disorders, by Paula Hoffman; (2) Proteomic analysis of blood constituents in alcoholism, by Boris Tabakoff; (3) Contrasts between the responses of GGT and CDT to high alcohol intake, and a test of their combined use, by John Whitfield; (4) Direct ethanol metabolites such as ethyl glucuronide, fatty acid ethyl esters, phosphatidylethanol and ethyl sulfate: a new line of sensitive and specific biomarkers, by Friedrich Martin Wurst; and (5) Genetic studies of alcoholism subtypes in a Han Taiwanese population, by Ru-Band Lu.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1268-1275 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 2005 |
Keywords
- Affective disorders
- Alcoholism
- Biomarkers
- CDT
- Direct ethanol metabolites
- GGT
- Genetics
- Proteomics
- Subtypes
- WHO/ISBRA study
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)
- Toxicology
- Psychiatry and Mental health