Alcoholic Neuropathy: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
Ethanol and its toxic metabolites affect neural metabolism including metabolic activities in the nucleus, lysosomes, peroxisomes, endoplasmic reticulum, and cytoplasm 104. The morphological basis of post-alcoholic damage of neural tissue includes primary axonopathy and secondary demyelination of motor and sensory (especially small) fibers 105. Demyelination is probably the effect of axoplasmic transmission slowdown; such degeneration […]
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