<p>Section 1. General and Introductory Aspects<br>1. Nutrients and Liver Energy Metabolism<br> Daniel Gyamfi and Kwabena Owusu Danquah <br>2. Alcohol Metabolism: general aspects<br> Reem Ghazali and Vinood B. Patel<br>Section 2. Molecular biology of the cell<br>3. Alcohol and aldehyde dehydrogenases: molecular aspects<br> Kwabena Owusu Danquah<br>4. Apoptosis and alcohol <br> F.A. Middleton<br>5. Pathogenic Mechanisms in Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD): emerging role of Osteopontin <br> Wing-Kin Syn and Jason D. Coombes <br>6. The Role of CD36 in the Pathogenesis of Alcohol-Related Disease<br> Caleb T. Epps, Robin D. Clugston, Amit Saha, William S. Blaner and Li-Shin Huang <br>7. Thiamine deficiency in alcoholics<br> Ann M. Manzardo<br>8. Vitamin B regulation of Alcoholic Liver Disease<br> Charles H. Halsted and Valentina Medici <br>9. Vitamin D and alcohol interactions and implication for bone<br> Emilio Gonzalez-Reimers, Geraldine Quintero-Platt, Antonio Martinez-Riera and Francisco Santolaria-Fernandez <br>10. Antioxidant treatment of alcoholism<br> Camila Siqueira Silva, Helio Vannucchi and Guilherme Vannucchi Portari <br>11. Selenium dietary supplementation and oxidative balance in alcoholism<br> Olimpia Carreras, María Luisa Ojeda and Fatima Nogales <br>12. Role of zinc in alcoholic liver disease<br> Zhanxiang Zhou<br>13. Interactions between alcohol and folate<br> Bogdan Cylwik<br>14. Effects of Acetladehyde on intestinal barrier function<br> D. Jonkers and Elhaseen Elamin <br>15. Cholesterol regulation by leptin in alcoholic liver disease<br> Balasubramaniyan Vairappan<br>16. CRF system and alcohol consumption<br> Andrey E. Ryabinin and William J. Giardino <br>17. Metabolic profiling approaches for biomarkers of ethanol intake<br> Helen G. Gika and Ian D. Wilson <br>Section 3. Genetic machinery and its function<br>18. Gene expression in alcoholism: an overview<br> Reem Ghazali and Vinood B. Patel <br>19. Cytochrome P4502E1 Gene Polymorphisms in alcoholics<br> Tao Zeng and K.-Q. Xie <br>20. Genes associated with alcohol withdrawal <br> Kesheng Wang and Liang Wang <br>21. Alcohol and epigenetic modulations <br> Claudio D'Addario and Mauro Maccarrone <br>22. miRNA Expression in the alcoholic liver disease<br> Shashi Bala<br>22. Alcohol and DNA Methylation<br> Feng C. Zhou<br>24. Ethanol-mediated carcinogenesis molecular insights as an overview<br> Helmut K. Seitz<br>25. Molecular link between alcohol and breast cancer: the role of salsolinol<br> Mariko Murata, Kaoru Midorikawa and Shosuke Kawanishi <br>26. Ethanol impairs Phospholipase D signaling in astrocytes<br> Ute Burkhardt and Jochen Klein <br>27. Metabolite changes in alcohol gonadotoxicity<br> Ganna M. Shayakhmetova and Larysa B. Bondarenko <br>28. Hepcidin and iron dysregulation in alcoholics<br> Kosha Mehta and Vinood B. Patel</p>