1. World Health Organization/International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism Study on State and Trait Markers of Alcohol Use and Dependence: Back to the Future
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L D. Snell, Ru Band Lu, Paula L. Hoffman, Franz Müller-Spahn, Manfred Wolfersdorf, Wolfgang Weinmann, Otto M. Lesch, Alan Kaiser, Friedrich M. Wurst, Christine C. Wu, Martin A. Javors, Yi Syuan Wu, Christer Alling, John Whitfield, Steina Aradottir, Katrin Ramskogler, Lisa M. Hines, Huei Chen Ko, Gregory E. Skipper, San Yuan Huang, Yvonne Nachbar, Tso Jen Wang, Nassima Ait-Daoud, Sebastian Dresen, Boris Tabakoff, Gerhard A. Wiesbeck, Bankole A. Johnson, Claudia Spies, Fritz Pragst, and Susanne Hartmann
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medicine.medical_specialty ,education.field_of_study ,Population ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,Alcohol ,Toxicology ,medicine.disease ,World health ,Substance abuse ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Ethyl glucuronide ,chemistry ,High alcohol ,Trait ,medicine ,Phosphatidylethanol ,Psychology ,Psychiatry ,education - Abstract
This article summarizes content proceedings of a symposium held at the 2004 International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism Congress in Mannheim, Germany. The chairs were Boris Tabakoff and Friedrich M. Wurst. The presentations were (1) Genetic associations with alcoholism and affective disorders, by Paula Hoffman; (2) Proteomic analysis of blood constituents in alcoholism, by Boris Tabakoff; (3) Contrasts between the responses of GGT and CDT to high alcohol intake, and a test of their combined use, by John Whitfield; (4) Direct ethanol metabolites such as ethyl glucuronide, fatty acid ethyl esters, phosphatidylethanol and ethyl sulfate: a new line of sensitive and specific biomarkers, by Friedrich Martin Wurst; and (5) Genetic studies of alcoholism subtypes in a Han Taiwanese population, by Ru-Band Lu.
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- 2005
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