Does alcohol-induced blood cell agglutination cause brain damage?

Morphological and biomechanical study of abdominal aorta of rats submitted to experimental chronic alcoholism

“…Authors did not find alterations in the anatomy, histology, histochemistry, and electronic microscopy of the arteries, veins, and capillaries of rats receiving liquid diet containing alcohol during one year 14 . Phillips 22 observed that the endothelial cells of brain blood vessels in rats breathing continuous ethanol vapor during 3 weeks were normal, which is in accordance to the present study, with no histopathological alterations in the endothelium, collagen, and muscle fibers found in comparison to controls. Differences related to animal species, type of artery, and experimental model may explain the discrepancies found in literature.…”

Effect of Dichlorvos on Histoarchitecture of The Cerebral Blood Vessels in Adult Wistar Rats

“…The vascular endotheliocytes were also surrounded by polymorphic (pEN) endotheliocytes with some of them knocked out of the basement membrane (BM) lining thereby distorting the arrangements. This result contradicted the finding of Phillips (1986) which observed that the endothelial cells of brain blood vessels in rats breathing after continuous ethanol vapor during 3 weeks were normal, which in accordance to the present study, there was histopathological alterations in the endothelium when compared to controls.The photomicrograph of the VB in group III was presented in plate 3. The histoarchitechture showed perivascular edematous zone around the blood vessels (PVE).…”