Table 1.

Effect of chronic ethanol consumption on various liver and serum measurements

	Control	Ethanol
Body weight gain, g	100.5 ± 9.3	95.3 ± 10.6
Liver weight, g	10.8 ± 0.6	11.9 ± 0.8
Liver/body weight ratio, %	3.1 ± 0.05	3.5 ± 0.15
Blood alcohol, mg/dl		178 ± 35*
Serum ALT, U/l	43.2 ± 5.0	57.5 ± 3.0†
Serum triglycerides, mg/dl	104.6 ± 12.5	162.1 ± 35
Liver triglycerides, mg/mg protein	9.8 ± 1.8	41.1 ± 7.5*

Data are means ± SE. ALT, alanine aminotransferase.

^*P < 0.05,

^†P < 0.005 compared with control.