How to Use dehydrogenase in a Sentence
dehydrogenase
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The liver also uses alcohol dehydrogenase to break down methanol—and that’s where the problems start.
—Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
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Women have lower amounts of the enzyme, alcohol dehydrogenase, needed to break their drinks down, so they are left with higher levels of a substance that is toxic to organs like the liver.
—Linda Carroll, NBC News, 28 July 2023
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Chemistry of a cheap date: Women produce only 60 percent as much alcohol dehydrogenase, the enzyme that neutralizes booze, as men do.
—Leeaundra Keany, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2010
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Eating first may be even more important for women, who are thought to have lower levels of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), the enzyme that primarily breaks down alcohol, in their stomachs.
—Lindzi Wessel, Popular Science, 30 Dec. 2019
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The former has been implicated in celiac disease, while the latter is an alcohol dehydrogenase locus.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2011
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The liver uses enzymes, including one called alcohol dehydrogenase, to transform ethanol from a mild toxin into a harmless chemical called acetate.
—Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
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For example, the enzyme cellobiose dehydrogenase from the fungus Phanerochaete sordida can break down sugars and generate electrical current when stuck onto carbon tubes only nanometers (billionths of a meter) wide.
—Charles Q. Choi, Washington Post, 9 June 2018
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More insight is needed into whether this could help people who don’t produce adequate levels of aldehyde dehydrogenase, the key enzyme needed for alcohol metabolization.
—Claire Turrell, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2020
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Ethanol undergoes a biochemical reaction that produces acetaldehyde, which is then broken down by another enzyme called aldehyde dehydrogenase and excreted from the body.
—Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 5 Oct. 2021
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The drug blocks a form of the enzyme acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), which helps the body metabolize alcohol; drinking while taking disulfiram leads to an extremely unpleasant, and occasionally fatal, constellation of hangover-like symptoms.
—Emily Anthes, Bloomberg.com, 3 Aug. 2017
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Women also produce less of the alcohol-metabolizing enzyme known as alcohol dehydrogenase.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 19 Mar. 2023
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Two enzymes–alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase–are responsible for processing alcohol in the body.
—Kimberly Hickok, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2022
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