Table 1.

Chronic low alcohol subjects displayed significantly less caspase-3 events accompanied by an increased velocity shortening and peak cellular shortening compared to control subjects. Chronic high alcohol subjects displayed significantly elevated caspase-3 events compared to both control and chronic low alcohol subjects. * p < 0.05 compared to control; ^# p < 0.05 compared to LA and control.

	Control	LA	HA
Caspase-3 (events/mm2)	0.560 ± 0.187	0.216 ± 0.029 *	1.121 ± 0.154 #
Velocity Shortening (µm/s)	89.6 ± 5.6	164.6 ± 17.1 *	99.65 ± 9.3
Peak Cellular Shortening (%)	5.3 ± 0.3	10.2 ± 1.2 *	6.2 ± 0.6