Comprehensive Handbook of Alcohol Related Pathology

Description:

This comprehensive handbook is a "one-stop-shop" for all researchers involved in the field of alcohol-related harm at the whole body or cellular level. Over 100 chapters provide abundant information of a wide range of topics that extend from the evolutionary aspects of alcohol consumption and the prevalence of alcohol misuse to programmed cell death. Each chapter is highly illustrated with tables and figures making this a valuable reference for students, clinicians and researchers alike.

Features:

* Over 100 chapters conveniently divided into 3 sections
* Represents a 'one-stop-shop' of information with suitable indexing of the various pathways and processes
* Each chapter is highly illustrated with tables as well as figures

Edited by Victor R. Preedy, King's College, University of London, UK; and Ronald Watson, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Contents

Contributors
Preface
Foreword

Volume 1

Part I: General Aspects of Alcohol Toxicity, Consumption, and Disease
1. Evolutionary and Historical Aspects of Ethanol Ingestion - Robert Dudley
2. Alcohol Metabolism: General Aspects - Charles S. Lieber
3. Intake of Different Alcoholic Beverages and Life-style and Psychosocial Factors - John Barefoot and Morten Grønbæk
4. Genetic Aspects of Alcohol Metabolism: An Overview - Stephen J. Marshall and Geoff K. Chambers
5. Predictors of Alcohol Consumption - Kari Poikolainen
6. Binge Drinking: Patterns, Explanations, and Policy - Holly E. Ventura, Chris L. Gibson, J. Mitchell Miller and Alex R. Piquero
7. Breath and Blood Alcohol - Marion Pavlic and Petra Grubwieser
8. Effects of Food and Body Composition on Blood Alcohol Levels - Harold Kalant
9. Disposal of Ethanol Carbon Atoms - M-A. Cornier
10. Effect of Alcohol on Water and Sodium Homeostasis - Ramón Rodrigo and Gonzalo Rivera
11. Energy from Alcohol - Michael J. Haas
12. The Mediterranean Diet and the Contribution and Role of Alcohol - Maria Isabel Covas
13. The Role of Alcohol in Injury Deaths - Philippe Lunetta and Gordon S. Smith
14. Death from Alcohol Poisoning - James A. Crampton and Kathleen Berry
15. Alcohol and the Workplace - Valentino Patussi and Laura Mezzani
16. Alcohol Misuse in Adolescents: Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics, Diagnosis, and Treatment - Dawn L. Thatcher and Duncan B. Clark
17. Alcohol Misuse in Adolescents: Individual Differences, Prevention, Identification, and Intervention - Rebecca Lebeau-Craven, Holly A. Sindelar, James Murphy and Nancy P. Barnett
18. What is the Impact of Alcohol on Learning in University Students? - Bert Aertgeerts
19. The Relationship Between Alcohol Misuse and the Homelessness - Colleen Clark and Alexander R. Rich
20. Alcohol and Sport Activities: Spectator’s Perspective - Eli Torild Hellandsjo Bu

Part II: Damage/Disease
21. An Overview of Pathologies Occurring in Alcohol Abusers - Valentino Patussi, Laura Mezzani and Emanuele Scafato
22. Gender Differences in Alcohol Pathology - Joaquim Fernández-Solà, Josep-María Nicolás, Romon Estruch and Alvaro Urbano-Márquez
23. Psychological Effects of Alcohol Misuse - Marc Walter, Gerhard Dammann and Burghard F. Klapp
24. The Effect of Alcohol on Quality of Life - Paul J. Allison
25. Alcohol and Road Accidents - Andrea Fabbri, Giulio Marchesini and Alberto Vandelli
26. Trauma and Alcohol - Richard D. Blondell
27. Clinical Implications of Alcohol Misuse for Surgery - S. Shourie, P.S. Haber, R. Boughton, and K.M. Conigrave
28. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - Christina D. Chambers
29. Nutritional Status in Alcoholics - Romon Estruch, Emilio Sacanella, Joaquim Fernández-Solà and Josep-Maria Nicolás
30. Alcohol and Body Composition - Giovanni Addolorato, Carlo Ancona, Esmeralda Capristo, Giovanni Gasbarrini and the Alcohol Related Diseases Study Group
31. Beneficial Components of White Wine - A.A.E. Bertelli
32. Polyphenols and Alcohol: Complementary Mechanisms for the Protective - Effects of Moderate Wine Consumption A. Di Castelnuovo, S. Rotondo and G. de Gaetano
33. Overview of ALDH Polymorphism: Relation to Cardiovascular Effects of Alcohol - Shih-Jiun Yin and Giia Sheun Peng
34. Overview on the Effects of Amount and Type of Alcohol on Morbidity and Mortality - Morten Grønbæk and Lina Steinrud Mørch
35. Alcohol-related Mortality in Russia - A.V. Nemtsov and P.P. Ogurtsov
36. Epidemiology and Risk Factors Involved in Alcoholic Liver Disease - Ulrik Becker
37. Polymorphism and Alcoholic Liver Disease - José María Ladero
38. Liver Injury During Alcohol Use and Withdrawal - Abraham P. Bautista
39. Alcohol Consumption and Diabetes Mellitus - Angelo Avogaro and Antonio Tiengo
40. Alcoholic Ketoacidosis - Hitender Jain and M. Duggal
41. Alcohol, Alcoholism and Effects on the Kidney and Kidney Disease - Judith H. Veis
42. Alcohol Intake and the Lower Urinary Tract - C.P. Arun
43. Alcohol and Prostate Cancer - Katrine Albertsen and Morten Grønbæk
44. Oral Health and Alcohol - Jukka H. Meurman and Riitta Suuronen

Volume 2

45. Alcohol and the Gastrointestinal Tract - Gerlinde Egerer, Felix Stickel and Helmut K. Seitz
46. Alcohol, ALDH2 Genotypes and Intestinal Cancer - Motoi Murata
47. Alcohol and Pancreatitis - Alexander Schneider, Stephan L. Haas and Manfred V. Singer
48. The Skin and Alcohol - Elisabeth Higgins
49. Alcohol, Blood Pressure and Hypertension - Ian B. Puddey, Renate R. Zilkens and Lawrence J. Beilin
50. Alcohol and Stroke - Douglas A. Dulli and Madeleine C. Geraghty
51. Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy - Michael Sander, Christian von Heymann, Jan Braun, Adrian Borges and Claudia Spies
52. Epidemiologic Aspects of ALDH2 Genotypes and Cardiovascular Parameters - Tomonori Okamura
53. Alcoholic Myopathy: Clinical Aspects - Joaquim Fernández-Solà, Josep-María Nicolás, Romon Estruch, Emilio Sacanella, Joseph-María Grau and
Alvaro Urbano-Márquez
54. Alcohol and the Eye: Friend or Foe - John R. Trevithick and Kenneth P. Mitton
55. Marchiafava–Bignami Disease in Alcoholism - Yahya Çelik
56. Peripheral Neuropathy - Angelo Ammendola and Francesco Bravaccio
57. Defects in Methionine Metabolism: Its Role in Ethanol-induced Liver Injury - Kusum K. Kharbanda and Anthony J. Barak
58. Roles of Kupffer Cells in Alcoholic Liver Disease - Yoshiyuki Takei, Nobuyuki Enomoto, Kenichi Ikejima, Shunhei Yamashina, Tsuneo Kitamura and Nobuhiro Sato
59. The Role of the Stellate Cell in Alcohol Mediated Tissue Injury - R.G. Batey and Jianhua Wang
60. The Role of T Lymphocytes in the Pathogenesis of Alcoholic Liver Disease - Q. Cao and R.G. Batey
61. Oxidative Stress in Alcoholic Liver Disease: Clinical Studies - Carmela Loguercio and Alessandro Federico
62. The Relationship between Alcohol-induced Apoptosis and Oxidative Stress in the Liver - Juan Sastre, Juan Bautista Miñana, Federico V. Pallardó and José Viña
63. Alcohol and HIV Interactions in the Natural History and Treatment of HIV/AIDS - Thomas F. Kresina and Laura W. Cheever
64. Alcohol and Hepatitis Virus Interactions in Liver Pathology - Bin Gao
65. Moderate Alcohol and Fibrosis in Chronic Viral Hepatitis - Johan Westin
66. Ethanol–Taurine Interactions in the Brain: Mechanisms and Pathophysiological Implications - Jan Albrecht, Magealena Zielinska, Jeffrey W. Allen, Offie P. Soldin and Michael Aschner
67. The Effect of Ethanol on Ion Channels in the Brain: A New Look - Hugh E. Criswell and George R. Breese
68. A Nitric Oxide Signaling Pathway Protects the Developing Brain against Alcohol-induced Neuronal Death - Ana M. Hutton Kahrberg, Nicholas J. Pantazis, Ross A. McKim and Daniel J. Bonthius
69. Signaling Pathways in the Heart and Moderate Alcohol Intake - Mary O. Gray
70. Effects of Alcohol on Vascular Function - Jocelyn L. Cook and Sandra T. Davidge
71. Vascular and Biochemical Effects of Moderate Alcohol Consumption: Mechanisms of Protection Against Cardiovascular Disease - Asf je Sierksma, Diederick E. Grobbee and Henk F.J. Hendriks
72. Alcohol and Xenobiotics in Placenta Damage - Cleofina Bosco
73. Molecular Mechanisms in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Shh-signaling - Sara C. Ahlgren
74. The Process of Bacterial Translocation and Implications for Health in Alcoholics - Valeria Bender Braulio
75. Alcohol, Altered Gut Permeability, and Endotoxins - Alexandr Parlesak
76. Hormonal Responses in Alcoholism - Bernard Campillo
77. Alcohol-induced Changes in the GH–IGF Axis - Charles H. Lang and Robert A. Frost
78. Mechanisms in Prostate Damage by Alcohol - Jose A. Castro and Gerardo D. Castro
79. Signaling Pathways in Human Breast Cells in Response to Alcohol: Mechanisms for Alcohol-induced Breast Cancer - Ernest B. Izevbigie
80. The Ubiquitin–Proteasome System in Alcohol-Induced Pathology - Terrence M. Donohue, Jr. and Samuel W. French
81. Alcohol and Alkylating Agents - David B. Couch
82. DNA Damage Resulting from Alcohol Abuse with Special Reference to the Brain - Philip J. Brooks, Jacob A. Theruvathu and Raghu G. Nath
83. Purine Metabolism and the Influence of Alcoholic Beverages - Y. Suwa
84. The Role of PKC Isozymes in Mediating Responses to Ethanol - John S. Ellingson
85. Ethanol Modulation of cAMP-dependent Protein Kinase Subunits Activity: Mechanisms and Functional Consequences - Anastasia Constantinescu
86. Adhesion Molecules and Alcohol Consumption - Emilio Sacanella, Romon Estruch, Josep-Maria Nicolás, and Joaquim Fernández-Solá
87. Glucose-regulated Stress Proteins (GRPs) and Alcohol - Eckhard Mühlbauer and H. Rommelspacher
88. Heat Shock Proteins and Alcohol - Luisa Schiaffonati
89. Role of Oxidative Stress in Alcohol-Induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction - Shannon M. Bailey
90. Alcohol and Apoptosis - Benita L. McVicker, Dean J. Tuma, Amin A. Nanji and Carol A. Casey

Volume 3

91. Alcohol and Fatty Acid Ethyl Esters - Raneem O. Salem and Michael Laposata
92. Modification of Proteins by Reactive Ethanol Metabolites: Adduct Structure, Functional and Pathological Consequences - Simon Worrall and Geoffrey M. Thiele
93. The Effect of Acetaldehyde on Plasma - Arthur S. Brecher
94. Autoantibodies in Alcohol-related Tissue Diseases - Emanuele Albano and Matteo Vidali
95. Alcohol-induced Membrane Damage - Junko Adachi, Hideyuki Nushida, Yasuhiro Ueno and Victor R. Preedy
96. Alcohol Abuse and Eating Disorders - Marlene B. Schwartz and Rajita Sinha
97. The Relationship Between Obesity and Alcoholic Pathology - Daniel Bunout, María Pía De la Maza and Sandra Hirsch
98. Protein Deficiency and Alcohol: Interactions and Organ Effects - Emilio González-Reimers and Francisco Santolaria-Fernández
99. Tryptophan Metabolism and Alcoholism - Abdulla A.-B. Badawy

Part III: Selective Methods Used in Alcohol Research

100. Selective Methods Used in Alcohol Research: Screening in Primary Care – Methods and Approaches - Adam J. Gordon, Joseph Conigliaro and David A. Fiellin
101. Psychometric Assessment of Alcohol Use - Andrew J. Levine, Steven A. Castellon and Charles H. Hinkin
102. Self-reported Intake of Alcohol: Methods and Approaches - Ulrik Kesmodel
103. Use of the DSM-IV: Methods and Approaches - Deborah Hasin and Rachel Y. Waxman
104. The Alcohol-related Problems Survey: Developing and Testing a Screening Measure for Older Adults Arlene Fink
105. The Rapid Alcohol Problems Screen: Methods and Application - Cheryl J. Cherpitel
106. Methods for Determining Blood Alcohol Concentration: Current and Retrospective - Kate B. Carey and John T.P. Hustad
107. Urinary Markers of Alcohol Consumption - Anja Kroke and Jutta Dierkes
108. Methods for Measuring Genetic Variations in ADH and SLDH Loci: A Practical Approach - Stephen J. Marshall, Geoff K. Chambers and Darren Day
109. Histological Localization of Alcohol Dehydrogenase: Methods, Approaches and Applications - Susana E. Martínez, Sergio Porté, Julia Vaglenova, Xavier Parés and Jaume Farrés
110. Assays for Alcohol and Aldehyde Dehydrogenase: Methods, Approaches and Applications - Stewart Campbell and Peter M. Timms
111. Detecting ADH and ALDH Enzymes in Cells and Tissues using Western Blottinz - Connie Cheung and Camilla K. Smith Pease
112. Use of Selectively Bred Alcohol-preferring Rats to Study Alcohol Abuse, Relapse and Craving - R.L. Bell, Z.A. Rodd, J.M. Murphy and W.J. McBride
113. Animal Models of Chronic Alcohol-Induced Liver Damage - Jason C. Lambert and Gavin E. Arteel
114. Acute Ethanol Dosing Regimens: Methods and Approaches - Ernest L. Abel
115. Use of Isolated Cells in the Study of Ethanol-Induced Hepatotoxicity - Dahn L. Clemens
116. Animal Models of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Methods and Approaches - George K. Acquaah-Mensah
117. Genetically Engineered Animals in Alcohol Research - David F. Werner, Dev Chandra and Gregg E. Homanics
118. cDNA Arrays in Alcohol-Related Pathology: Methods and Approaches - R.S. Gooch, T.J. Worst, W.M. Freeman and K.E. Vrana
119. Practical Methods for Determining mRNA Levels in Alcohol-Exposed Tissues and Its Application to Experimental Pathology - Tatsuo Nakahara, Ross J. Hunter, Victor R. Preedy, Colin R. Martin, and Matthew E. Reilly
120. Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Measurement of the Facial Dysmorphology - Ernesta M. Meintjes and Tania S. Douglas
121. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Methods and Application to Alcohol Effects in the Liver - Marie-Christine-Beauvieux and Jean-Louis Gallis
Index