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Ethanol tolerance: Evidence of “protective” effects on brains of adult rats

✍ Scribed by W. R. Klemm

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1978
Tongue
English
Weight
347 KB
Volume
3
Category
Article
ISSN
0360-4012

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Abstract

Previous research with two biochemical markers of acute ethanol damage (sialic acid and 2‐deoxyribose) raised the possibility that tolerance developed by chronic ingestion of ethanol. However, this hypothesis required demonstration that chronic consumption was not damaging. This issue was investigated histologically in adult rats that voluntarily consumed massive doses of ethanol daily (range of 11 to 18 gm/kg/rat/day) for 28 days. By all indices (thickness measures of neocortex, hippocampus, and cerebellar molecular layer; and specific cell counts of neocortex and cerebellum), none of the ethanol‐exposed rats, even those with intentional nutritional deficiencies, revealed any physical sign of damage compared to control rats.

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