PMID: 15230187Jul 3, 2004Paper

Histochemical changes in the hypothalamus, hypophysis, and adrenal glands observed in ethanol poisoning

Sudebno-meditsinskaia ekspertiza
V K Mamedov, E Iu Morozov

Abstract

A comprehensive morphological-and-histochemical study of neuroendocrinal internals in cases of ethanol poisonings was undertaken. Actual forensic medical materials were used (62 cadavers) to make morphometry examinations of the hypothesis and adrenal glands. Besides, the distribution of alcohol dehydrogenase and acetaldehyde dehydrogenase was investigated in the mediatory differential brain sections, i.e. cerebellum, locus coeruleus, dorsal raphe nucleus, hypothalamus and adrenal glands. A differential distribution of ethanol-oxidizing enzymes as well as their changes in ethanol lethal poisoning were established; additionally, a variety of morphological signs were defined, which enable the differential diagnosis of a death reason in acute alcoholic intoxication.

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