How to Use dehydrogenase in a Sentence

dehydrogenase

noun

• The liver also uses alcohol dehydrogenase to break down methanol—and that’s where the problems start.
  — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
• Women have lower amounts of the enzyme, alcohol dehydrogenase, needed to break their drinks down, so they are left with higher levels of a substance that is toxic to organs like the liver.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 28 July 2023
• Chemistry of a cheap date: Women produce only 60 percent as much alcohol dehydrogenase, the enzyme that neutralizes booze, as men do.
  — Leeaundra Keany, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2010
• Eating first may be even more important for women, who are thought to have lower levels of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), the enzyme that primarily breaks down alcohol, in their stomachs.
  — Lindzi Wessel, Popular Science, 30 Dec. 2019
• The former has been implicated in celiac disease, while the latter is an alcohol dehydrogenase locus.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2011
• The liver uses enzymes, including one called alcohol dehydrogenase, to transform ethanol from a mild toxin into a harmless chemical called acetate.
  — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
• For example, the enzyme cellobiose dehydrogenase from the fungus Phanerochaete sordida can break down sugars and generate electrical current when stuck onto carbon tubes only nanometers (billionths of a meter) wide.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Washington Post, 9 June 2018
• More insight is needed into whether this could help people who don’t produce adequate levels of aldehyde dehydrogenase, the key enzyme needed for alcohol metabolization.
  — Claire Turrell, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2020
• Ethanol undergoes a biochemical reaction that produces acetaldehyde, which is then broken down by another enzyme called aldehyde dehydrogenase and excreted from the body.
  — Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 5 Oct. 2021
• The drug blocks a form of the enzyme acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), which helps the body metabolize alcohol; drinking while taking disulfiram leads to an extremely unpleasant, and occasionally fatal, constellation of hangover-like symptoms.
  — Emily Anthes, Bloomberg.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• Women also produce less of the alcohol-metabolizing enzyme known as alcohol dehydrogenase.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 19 Mar. 2023
• Two enzymes–alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase–are responsible for processing alcohol in the body.
  — Kimberly Hickok, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024