Component
Hepatic zinc content
Hepatic zinc content. Species, exposure and limitations are retained in each linked claim.
1 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.
How nutrients influence it
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Other things that act on it
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How nutrients reach it in more than one step
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What it does
Every recorded relationship this component is part of, grouped by its role. Plain wording comes first; the technical statement follows.
What acts on it
Hepatic zinc content differed across stages of alcoholic liver disease and in patients with chronic active and chronic persistent hepatitis.
Experimental context and source evidence
- availability_state
- nutrient_deficiency Imported condition classification; unverified.
- evidence_span
- {"source_cache": "artifacts/alcohol-research/3192174.abstract.txt", "locator": "Indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "7f6eab91e632a1ddf96193486fc1be8bffa4acb0b48d062fef2b65affe168ca3", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 1588, "text_sha256": "7f6eab91e632a1ddf96193486fc1be8bffa4acb0b48d062fef2b65affe168ca3"}
- experimental_model
- Hepatic zinc measurement across stages of alcoholic liver disease and chronic hepatitis
- exposure
- Staged alcoholic liver disease compared with chronic hepatitis
- limitations
- A human tissue measurement with a disease control group, which separates alcohol from liver disease in general.
- nutrient_topic
- Alcohol research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct clinical effect, and ethanol is recorded separately from the acetaldehyde it becomes. · Ethanol
- organism
- Human
- plain_language
- The liver itself holds less zinc as the disease advances.
- primary_references
- [alcohol-p3192174] Hepatic zinc content in patients with various stages of alcoholic liver disease and in patients with chronic active and chronic persistent hepatitis. (1988). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3192174/ DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840080622
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Liver
- trigger_kind
- nutrient_deficiency Imported condition classification; unverified.
Alcohol: ethanol clearance, acetaldehyde, the channels it binds, organ injury and nutrient collisions (2026-09-21) · lines 800–811
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Hepatic zinc measurement across stages of alcoholic liver disease and chronic hepatitis · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
### alcohol-hepatic-zinc-depletion Hepatic zinc content differed across stages of alcoholic liver disease and in patients with chronic active and chronic persistent hepatitis. Condition category: nutrient_deficiency nutrient_topic: Alcohol research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct clinical effect, and ethanol is recorded separately from the acetaldehyde it becomes. plain_language: The liver itself holds less zinc as the disease advances. organism: Human tissue_or_cell_type: Liver experimental_model: Hepatic zinc measurement across stages of alcoholic liver disease and chronic hepatitis limitations: A human tissue measurement with a disease control group, which separates alcohol from liver disease in general. exposure: Staged alcoholic liver disease compared with chronic hepatitis evidence_span: {"source_cache": "artifacts/alcohol-research/3192174.abstract.txt", "locator": "Indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "7f6eab91e632a1ddf96193486fc1be8bffa4acb0b48d062fef2b65affe168ca3", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 1588, "text_sha256": "7f6eab91e632a1ddf96193486fc1be8bffa4acb0b48d062fef2b65affe168ca3"} [alcohol-p3192174] Hepatic zinc content in patients with various stages of alcoholic liver disease and in patients with chronic active and chronic persistent hepatitis. (1988). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3192174/ DOI: 10.1002/hep.1840080622
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The events it takes part in
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Situations it appears in
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In the sources
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Open hypotheses
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