Nitric oxide is not increased in alcoholic brain.

Alcohol Alcohol

Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Published: December 1997

Nitric oxide (NO) metabolites nitrite and nitrate were measured in the cerebrospinal fluid in 12 alcohol-dependent subjects and in 16 healthy controls. The amounts of NO metabolites in alcoholics were not different from those in the controls. The results suggest that NO is not a major factor responsible for brain damage in these patients.

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