“…Further, chronic alcohol consumption induces liver injury in Cu, Zn-superoxide dismutase-de fi cient mice (Sod1−/−), with extensive centrilobular necrosis, in fl ammation and mitochondrial dysfunction (Kessova and Cederbaum 2007 ) . Garro et al ( 1981 ) , Arinç et al ( 2007 ) , Ma et al ( 1991 ) , Dey et al ( 2002Dey et al ( , 2005 , Kapoor et al ( 2006 ) , Khan et al ( 2011) , Anandatheerthavarada et al ( 1993 , Bhagwat et al ( 1995 ) , Huan and Koop ( 1999 ) , Roberts et al ( 1995 ) , and Zaluzny et al ( 1990 ) N-methyl formamide Lerche et al ( 1996) Diethylnitrosamine Lerche et al ( 1996) Nicotine Howard et al ( 2001 Regulation of Hepatic CYP2E1 Mediated by Pathophysiological Conditions Such as Obesity, Diabetes and Chemical Inducers Treatment of rats with the chemical inducer-4-methylpyrazole and streptozotocin which is commonly used to induce diabetes, increases CYP2E1 protein and catalytic activity and the values are additive for each inducer alone suggesting that diabetes may increase the susceptibility to toxins which are activated by CYP2E1, more so if pre-exposure to chemical inducers similar to 4-methylpyrazole, e.g., ethanol, isoniazid occurs (Wu and Cederbaum 1993a ) . Pyrazole and 4-methylpyrazole, inducers for hepatic CYP2E1 induce renal CYP2E1, through a post-transcriptional mechanism-possibly involving increased protein stabilization .…”