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Article: S-adenosyl-l-methionine and alcoholic liver disease in animal models. Implications for early intervention in human beings. (Abstracts).
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- Alternative Medicine Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Lieber C. Alcohol 2002;27:173.
In patients with severe alcoholic liver disease (i.e., cirrhosis), a deficiency of S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe) develops as a result of decreased SAMe synthetase activity. Whether a sizeable SAMe depletion occurs already at earlier stages of alcoholic liver disease has been the subject of debate. To address this issue, rats were fed alcohol (or isocaloric carbohydrate) in Lieber-DeCarli liquid diets containing adequate amounts of protein, vitamins, and lipotropic factors, including methionine. Alcohol feeding resulted in hepatic steatosis (without fibrosis) and unchanged SAMe synthetase activity, yet SAMe concentration was already ...