Alcohol
Volume 44, Issue 5 , Pages 457-462 , August 2010

Lipid-bound sialic acid in alcoholics participates in increased level of total sialic acid

  • Bogdan Cylwik

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemical Diagnostics, Medical University, Waszyngtona 15A, Bialystok, Poland
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  • Lech Chrostek

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemical Diagnostics, Medical University, Waszyngtona 15A, Bialystok, Poland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +48-85-7468-585.
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  • Agnieszka Krawiec

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemical Diagnostics, Medical University, Waszyngtona 15A, Bialystok, Poland
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  • Zbigniew Supronowicz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Detoxification, Psychiatric Hospital, Choroszcz, Poland
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  • Alicja Koput

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Laboratory Diagnostics, Public Children's Clinical Hospital, Bialystok, Poland
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  • Maciej Szmitkowski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemical Diagnostics, Medical University, Waszyngtona 15A, Bialystok, Poland

Received 4 June 2009 ,Revised 10 June 2010 ,Accepted 12 June 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2010.06.005

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