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. 2018 Mar;14(2):281-287.
doi: 10.5114/aoms.2016.60406. Epub 2016 Jun 7.

Activity of alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzymes and aldehyde dehydrogenase in sera of patients with hepatitis C

Wojciech Jelski  1 , Anna Strumnik  2 , Karolina Orywal  1 , Tadeusz W Lapinski  3 , Magdalena Swiderska  3 , Maciej Szmitkowski  1
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Activity of alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzymes and aldehyde dehydrogenase in sera of patients with hepatitis C

Wojciech Jelski et al. Arch Med Sci. 2018 Mar.

Abstract

Introduction: The changes of enzyme activity in the hepatocytes in the course of different liver diseases are reflected by increase of the corresponding enzyme activity in the plasma. For example, the activities of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) correlate with the severity of the condition during cirrhosis. In this study we measured the activity of ADH isoenzymes and ALDH in the sera of patients with hepatitis C.

Material and methods: Serum samples were taken from 60 patients suffering from viral hepatitis C and from 66 control subjects. Total ADH activity and class III and IV isoenzymes were measured by the photometric method and ALDH activity, ADH I and II by the fluorometric method.

Results: The ADH activity was significantly higher in patients with hepatitis C than in healthy (p < 0.001). The total activity of ADH was 1284 mU/l in patients, and 745 mU/l (controls). The activity of isoenzymes classes ADH I and ADH II in the hepatitis C group increased respectively 55% (4.24 vs. 1.88 mU/l; p < 0.001) and 47% (26.63 vs. 14.11 mU/l; p < 0.001) in the comparison to the control. There was significant increase in the activity of ADH I isoenzyme (4.96 vs. 3.81 mU/l; p < 0.001) and ADH total (1833 vs. 1105 mU/l; p < 0.001) in patients with high viral load in comparison to patients with low viral load.

Conclusions: The activity of class I and II ADH isoenzymes in the sera of patients with hepatitis C is increased, and it seems to be caused by the release of these isoenzymes from damaged liver cells.

Keywords: alcohol dehydrogenase isoenzymes; aldehyde dehydrogenase; hepatitis C.

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