[Features of metabolism of the human myocardium during alcoholic intoxication]

Systems of alcohol oxidation, malate-aspartate shunt, content of total and alpha-cholesterols in heart muscle and blood as well as morphometry of aorta were studied. The tissues investigated were obtained post mortem in lethal traumatic injury accompanied by increased content of ethanol in blood. The potentiating effect of alcoholization on atherogenesis was not found.