alcohol directly affects astroglial cell function, including inflammation-related activity.  and it also affects microglial cell development and function in specific ways that interfere with microglial interactions with the immune system and with neurons. neuroinflammatory processes might be involved in alcohol-induced brain damage. alcohol use, misuse and getting used to it causes different ki...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the effects of dietary components on the regulation of the gastric emptying rate of alcohol and its impact on alcohol metabolism. We recently found that the crude water-insoluble dietary fibers from several types of botanical foods maintained aqueous ethanol solutions. Additionally, the ethanol-absorbing ability of the dietary fibers correlated with the inhibiti...

background: in asia pacific (ap) region, the exact picture of the alcohol use problems has remained relatively obscure. in this study, the profile of alcohol consumption and alcohol related disorders in ap countries are presented.     methods: official statistics on average alcohol consumption (alcohol per capita consumption, apc), alcohol related health variables, income group and alcohol poli...

Previous work on the vitamin B12 content of the aqueous humour (Phillips, Ainley, van Peborgh, Watson-Williams, and Bottomley, I968) suggests that the levels found in a series of mainly elderly patients (mean: 299 pg./ml.) are of the same order as those found in cerebrospinal fluid (mean: 21 pg./ml.) (Kidd, Gould, and Thomas, I963). As an extension of this study, the response of aqueous vitamin...

The interaction between so-called alkyl alcohol (Cs-Cs) monolayers and aqueous solutions of ionic surfactants with different hydrophilic properties, i.e. calcium di-2-ethylhexyl sulfosuccinate and sodium dodecyl sulfate, has been studied with the help of a Langmuir-Adam film balance. A decrease or increase in surface pressure of the alkyl alcohol monolayers with the addition of surfactants is o...

The anti-spasmodic drug mebeverine is used in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome. It has been found to be unstable and rapidly metabolized to initially form mebeverine-alcohol and veratric acid. Mebeverine-alcohol is a precursor for a number of amphetamine-like compounds. Consequently, these, in addition to mebeverine and mebeverine-alcohol, can produce false-positive amphetamine immunoa...

In this paper, we explore the effects of the chain length of simple monohydroxy alcohol (C(n)OH, 2 ≤ n ≤ 8) and benzyl alcohol (C(6)H(5)CH(2)OH) upon the fluorescence dynamics of a dipolar solute probe, coumarin 153 (C153), in vesicles formed in aqueous solutions of two oppositely charged (cationic and anionic) surfactants in the presence of 0.05 mol kg(-1) alcohol. The catanionic vesicles are ...

The efficacy of a new skin disinfectant, 2% (w/v) chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) in 70% (v/v) isopropyl alcohol (IPA) (ChloraPrep), was compared with five commonly used skin disinfectants against Staphylococcus epidermidis RP62A in the presence or absence of protein, utilizing quantitative time-kill suspension and carrier tests. All six disinfectants [70% (v/v) IPA, 0.5% (w/v) aqueous CHG, 2% (w...