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“Salsolinol, the derivative of acetaldehyde and dopamine, does not appear to be a meaningful urinary marker, but levels of the related pyruvic acid/dopamine product may be increased by ethanol.”
Recent developments in alcoholism : an official publication of the American Medical Society on Alcoholism, the Research Society on Alcoholism, and the National Council on Alcoholism • 1988 | View Paper
“In similar conditions, the addition of ethanol depresses the formation of pyruvic acid but has not much effect upon that of dimethyl-pyruvic acid.”