Alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of several cancers. Potential mechanisms include altered oestrogen metabolism. Parent oestrogens metabolise into alternate pathways of ...

But the bad news is, once alcohol is in your bloodstream there is nothing you can do to speed up alcohol metabolism. As for ...

Exposure to alcohol during the first weeks of embryonic development changes gene activity and cellular metabolism. In ...

Urine tests can detect alcohol metabolites in your system long after you’ve had your last drink. When your body processes alcohol, it produces alcohol metabolites. These metabolites stick around ...

Urine tests can detect alcohol long after you’ve had your last drink by testing for traces of alcohol metabolites. The average urine test can detect alcohol up to 12 hours after drinking.

Covert alcohol use can be detected by biochemical markers that remain in the body. Researchers examined the effectiveness of two relatively new markers, ethyl glucuronide (EtG) and phosphatidyl ...

They did so by using stable-isotope labeling of alcohol to show that alcohol metabolism does, in fact, contribute to this process by directly depositing acetyl groups onto histones via an enzyme ...

“The metabolite PEtOH directly competes for the endogenous PLD product phosphatidic acid at lipid-binding sites within potassium channels [e.g., TWIK-related K+ channel type 1 (K2P2.1, TREK-1 ...