[The Development of Clinical and Morphological Manifestations of Chronic Alcoholic Myopathy in Men with Prolonged Alcohol Intoxication].

Chronic alcoholic myopathy occurs in 40-60% of patients who abuse alcohol, and is accompanied by decreased performance, proximal paresis and atrophy of skeletal muscles. However, it is unknown what is important in the development of the disease: duration of alcohol abuse, or the dose of ethanol consumed. Unknown dynamics of the pathological process in skeletal muscle.

[Proteolytic signaling mechanisms in skeletal muscles in patients with alcohol-induced muscle disease].

Chronic alcoholic myopathy is one of most numerous and profound manifestations of chronic alcohol intoxication. This disease is characterized by the pronounced atrophy of the locomotor muscles, which involves predominantly those fibers expressing myosin isoforms of the I "fast" type. In early experiments with alcohol-fed rats and studies of patients it was shown the impairment of the anabolic intracellular signaling pathways and decrease in protein synthesis rate.