OBJECTIVE At low-to-moderate concentrations, ethanol elimination follows zero-order kinetics. It is unknown whether renal, pulmonary or other first-order processes become significant in patients with very high serum ethanol concentrations. Additionally, it is unclear whether ethanol naive subjects induce their metabolism during acute intoxication. We present the toxicokinetic analysis in a chil...

Glucose was used as a cosubstrate under anaerobic conditions in the conversion of xylose to xylitol by a recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain expressing the xyl1 gene. Glucose was metabolized mainly through glycolysis, with carbon dioxide, acetate, and ethanol as end products and with reduction equivalents generated in the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and acetaldehyde dehydro...

1. The influence of a deficiency or surplus of thiamin in the diet on voluntary ethanol consumption, ethanol elimination rate and blood acetaldehyde concentration was studied in rats. 2. Both the high-thiamin diet containing 20 mg thiamin hydrochloride/kg and the thiamin deficient diet containing no measurable thiamin produced obvious functional effects on thiamin metabolism in rat tissues afte...