Abnormal Metabolite in Alcoholic Subjects
- 1 April 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 142 (4) , 388-390
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.142.4.388
Abstract
Summary: 2,3-butanediol appears in the blood of some alcoholics following ethanol ingestion. Whether it be a genetic trait or a phenomenon of induction remains to be determined. It may be associated in some way with depression.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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