In recent years the possible involvement of free radicreased the trapping of hydroxyethyl free radicals in cal mediated oxidative injury in the pathogenesis of liver microsomes incubated in vitro with ethanol. Fur-alcohol-induced liver diseases has received increasing thermore, these inhibitors also greatly reduced the pro-attention.1 Clinical studies have shown that products duction of hydroxyethyl radical-derived epitopes detect-of lipid peroxidation can be detected in the liver and associated with an increase of lipid peroxidation, which Rats fed intragastrically with ethanol developed antiwas detectable both in vitro and in vivo. 6,7 Moreover, bodies reacting with hydroxyethyl radicals-modified proteins and the formation of these antibodies was the treatment of rats with diallyl sulfide (DAS) or phegreatly reduced by DAS and PIC. Taken together these nylethyl isothiocyanate (PIC), which inhibited CYP2E1 results suggest that CYP2E1 plays an important role in expression, strongly decreased lipid peroxidation meathe generation of hydroxyethyl radicals during chronic sured in vitro in liver microsomes as well as in vivo in the plasma of alcohol-fed animals. 10 Interestingly, among these animals a positive correlation was evident Abbreviations: CYP2E1, cytochrome P450 2E1; DAS, diallyl sulfide; PIC, between the histological evidence of liver injury (i.e., phenylethyl isothiocyanate; KLH, keyhole limpet hemocyanin; RSA, rat serum steatosis, inflammation, and necrosis) and the liver albumin; Ig, immunoglobulin; 4-POBN, 4-pyridyl-1-oxide-t-butyl nitrone; CYP2E1 content. bind to microsomal proteins 13 and that these adducts Received April 12, 1995; accepted August 17, 1995. have immunologic properties leading to the production