Chronic alcoholism and the pancreas.
In rats given 15% solution of ethyl alcohol (v/v) instead of drinking water adlibitum for eight months, histochemical analysis showed a dictinct fall in activities of the oxidative enzymes (succinate and lactate dehydrogenases, DPNH-diaphorase) in the centro-acinar cells of the pancreas and in the islets of Langerhans.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D008058:Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D010179:Pancreas / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D051381:Rats; D013385:Succinate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism
D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase; D013385:Succinate Dehydrogenase; D008058:Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase