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Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published online on April 29, 2008
Alcohol and Alcoholism, doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn027
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Medical Council on Alcohol. All rights reserved

The effect of the binge drinking session on the activity of salivary, serum and urinary β-hexosaminidase: preliminary data

Napoleon Waszkiewicz1,*, Slawomir Dariusz Szajda2, Anna Jankowska3, Alina Kepka4, Jacek Dobryniewski5, Agata Szulc1 and Krzysztof Zwierz2

1 Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
2 Department of Pharmaceutical Biochemistry, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
3 Department of Paedodontics, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
4 Department of Laboratory Diagnostics of the Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
5 SPPZOZ in Choroszcz, Bialystok, Poland

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: Department of Psychiatry, Medical University in Bialystok, 16-070 Choroszcz, Poland; Tel.: +48 85 7193979; Fax: +48 85 7193978; E-mail: napoleonwas{at}yahoo.com

Received 7 January 2008; in revised form 21 February 2008; in revised form 25 February 2008; accepted 18 March 2008


  Abstract

Our report is the first to show that an acute ingestion (6 h) of a relatively large, yet tolerable dose of alcohol (120–160 g), significantly increases activity of total serum β-hexosaminidase (total β-HEX), β-HEX A and β-HEX B isoenzymes, as well as salivary total β-HEX and urinary β-HEX A, in eight infrequent binge drinkers. An increase in the activity of serum and urinary total HEX is mainly due to its secretory isoenzyme β-HEX A.


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