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Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 132-137, 2002
© 2002 Medical Council on Alcohol

COMBINED EFFECTS OF STEROIDS, ETHANOL AND PROTEIN DEFICIENCY ON TISSUE CONTENT AND URINARY AND FAECAL EXCRETION OF ZINC, COPPER AND IRON

E. González-Reimers,*, F. Santolaria-Fernández, P. Garrido-Benedicto, M. C. Durán-Castellón, L. Galindo-Martín1, A. Martínez-Riera, J. Viña-Rodríguez and M. J. de La Vega-Prieto2

Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife,
1 Dpto. de Química Analítica, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife and
2 Servicio de Laboratorio, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain)

Received 30 May 2001; first review notified 31 July 2001; accepted 25 August 2001

This study was performed in order to determine the relative and combined effects of ethanol, a low protein diet and steroid treatment on bone, muscle, liver, and urinary and faecal excretion of zinc, copper and iron in 64 rats divided into eight groups treated following the Lieber–DeCarli liquid diet technique, with and without dexamethasone, 1 mg/l. Steroids showed a lack of effect on liver zinc, but enhanced ethanol- and low protein-mediated liver iron overload when both factors were combined. Steroids also increased muscle copper, iron and zinc, and bone copper, especially in the low protein, ethanol-fed rats.


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