Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 608, 2001
© 2001 Medical Council on Alcohol
Letter to the Editor
ON INTRACELLULAR FORMATION OF ETHANOL AND ITS POSSIBLE ROLE IN ENERGY METABOLISM
Department of Analytical Biochemistry, Nulab, Inc., Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA
Received 6 February 2001; first review notified 30 April 2001; accepted 11 June 2001
Despite a great number of papers devoted to studies of the influence of alcohol on man's health, very few of them discuss the issue of the presence of ethanol in the human body not connected with alcohol consumption. Such ethanol is commonly called endogenous. It is believed to originate from the microbial fermentation of the carbohydrates in the gastro-intestinal tract (Krebs and Perkins,
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