Alanine with the Precipitate of Tomato Juice Administered to Rats Enhances the Reduction in Blood Ethanol Levels

Figure 3

Blood ethanol concentrations 4 h following ingestion of 4.0 g/kg of ethanol after the administration of each sample in Experiments 2A and 2B. The rats were orally given 20 mL/kg of tomato juice, 5.0% alanine aqueous solution, tomato juice with 5.0% alanine, or water (control) in Experiment 2A and the tomato juice supernatant with or without 5.0% alanine or the tomato juice precipitate with or without 5.0% alanine in Experiment 2B. Results are expressed as mean and standard deviation (). Mean values with different uppercase letters differ significantly (ANOVA post hoc Tukey’s HSD test, ) among four groups.

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