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The effect of unilateral pneumonectomy on the drug-metabolizing capability of the remaining lung of male rabbits was studied 3, 10, and 28 days after surgery. During the period of compensatory lung growth which follows pneumonectomy, the contralateral lung had a reduced ability to metabolize some model drug substrates. The activities of 4-chloro-N-methylaniline demethylase, glutathione transferase, and 4-aminobenzoate N-acetyltransferase were significantly decreased in pneumonectomizd animals relative to shamoperated controls at 10 days. By 28 days most of these parameters of drug metabolism had returned to control levels. Lung hydroxyproline concentration, an index of collagen, did not differ in pneumonectomized and control animals at any of the time points. 3-Methylcholanthrene failed to induce the pulmonary mono-oxygenase system in pneumonectomized animals. The response of pulmonary drug-metabolizing enzymes to unilateral pneumonectomy in rabbits was temporally and qualitatively similar to the response in rat liver following partial hepatectomy.
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PMID:The effect of unilateral pneumonectomy on in vitro drug metabolism by the contralateral lung of rabbits. 3 21

Treatment of male rats with 3,4-benzopyrene, 3-methylcholanthrene and phenobarbital resulted in the induction of glutathione S-aryl- and S-aralkyl-transferase activities in kidney cytosol. Benzopyrene produced 77 and 44% increases in aryl and aralkyl activities respectively. Methylcholanthrene caused 73 and 86% increases in the retrospective activities, whereas phenobarbital treatment increased only aralkyl activity (51%). There was no effect on epoxide or alkyl glutathione S-transferase activities with these treatments. Differences were found between the specific activities of the four glutathione S-transferases in females and males, with the following female/male ratios: aryl 0.74; aralkyl 2.37; epoxide 1.52; alkyl 1.33. No changes in Km values were observed relative to drug induction or sex differences. Comparisons are made between the findings of this report and corresponding experiements with liver.
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PMID:Drug induction and sex differences of renal glutathione S-transferases in the rat. 118 Sep 17

C3H/10T1/2 clone 8 (10T1/2) cells possess Phase I and Phase II xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes associated with the metabolism of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to activated or detoxified species. We compared the metabolism of benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) by these cells to an aflatoxin B1 (AFB1)-transformed line (7SA) and a 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC)-transformed line (MCA) isolated from carcinogen-treated 10T1/2 cells. Relative to 10T1/2 cells, basal levels of cytochrome P450-mediated aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) were significantly depressed in 7SA cells by about 30%. The inducibility of AHH by BaP treatment was depressed by 30-70% in MCA and 7SA cells over a 36-hr time course. 10T1/2 and MCA cells accumulated similar intracellular amounts of 3-OH-BaP by 12 and 24 hr, respectively; in contrast the accumulation of 3-OH-BaP in 7SA cells was 70% lower. During 36 hr of BaP treatment, total BaP-DNA adduct levels formed in 7SA and MCA cells, determined by 32P-postlabeling analysis, were 90 and 83% lower, respectively, than those found in 10T1/2 cells. These differences in response to BaP treatment were not related to cellular differences in the uptake or efflux of BaP. Relative to 10T1/2 or MCA cells, 7SA cells were found to have at least a twofold increase in UDP-glucuronyltransferase activity, which correlated with the lower intracellular accumulation of 3-OH-BaP and enhanced formation of extracellular polar metabolites. MCA cells had an almost twofold increase in glutathione S-transferase activity relative to parental 10T1/2 cells but produced lower levels of extracellular polar metabolites. These results demonstrate an association between chemical transformation of 10T1/2 cells and altered xenobiotic metabolism. This system may provide an in vitro model for examining the molecular events responsible for the biochemically altered phenotype of the malignantly transformed cell.
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PMID:Altered benzo[a]pyrene metabolism in C3H/10T1/2 cells transformed by aflatoxin B1 or 3-methylcholanthrene. 197 7

Plaice were treated with an acute dose of a polyaromatic hydrocarbon (3-methylcholanthrene, 3-MC) or cadmium, or 3-MC and cadmium by i.p. injection. The effects on hepatic detoxication systems, cytochrome P-450 (ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase, EROD), UDP-glucuronyl transferase, glutathione S-transferase, glutathione peroxidase activities, total glutathione (GSH), metallothionein and Cd and Zn in the cytosol were studied over a 14 day period. 3-MC increased EROD (7-18-fold), glucuronyl transferase (40%) and GSH transferase (200%) activities, whereas GSH peroxidase activity decreased by 60%. Cd treatment inhibited EROD (90%), GSH transferase (90%) and GSH peroxidase (30%) activities and displaced Zn. Total GSH levels increased (200%) prior to onset of metallothionein synthesis (6 days). Cotreatment with 3-MC and Cd led to a marked increase in GSH levels (300%) but the onset of metallothionein synthesis was delayed by a week. Induction of enzyme activities was abolished, EROD activity was strongly inhibited and there was a transient 50-90% decrease in glucuronyl transferase, GSH transferase and GSH peroxidase activities on days 2 and 3 after treatment. The results indicate that a polyaromatic hydrocarbon could result in increased peroxidative damage, the heavy metal Cd can severely inhibit organic xeno- and endobiotic metabolism and that the effects of both agents may be synergistic.
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PMID:The time course of effects of cadmium and 3-methylcholanthrene on activities of enzymes of xenobiotic metabolism and metallothionein levels in the plaice, Pleuronectes platessa. 286 5

Male rats more than seven weeks old showed significantly higher activity of hepatic cytosolic glutathione S-transferase (GST) than females. This sex-related difference in GST activities might be explained by the difference in subunit composition of the enzymes between males and females. The relative proportion of subunit composition of GST between adult male and female rats was as follows: Ya, female greater than male; Yb(Yb'), male much greater than female; Yc, female greater than male. Since phenobarbital (60 mg/kg, i.p. for seven days) induced the Yb subunit as well as Ya subunit, the enzyme activity was more increased in males than in females and the sex difference became more marked. 3-Methylcholanthrene (20 mg/kg, i.p. three times) caused an increase of Ya subunit alone, and then the increased extent was greater in females than in males, and resulted in the disappearance of sex difference.
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PMID:Difference in the effects of phenobarbital and 3-methylcholanthrene treatment on subunit composition of hepatic glutathione S-transferase in male and female rats. 310 85

The metabolism of hexamethylphosphoramide (HMPA), aminopyrine, ethoxycoumarin, ethoxyresorufin, and pentoxyresorufin, by the monooxygenase cytochrome P-450-dependent system, was studied in microsomes from nasal epithelial membranes and liver tissue of Sprague-Dawley rats. Nasal metabolism rates for the different substrates ranged from 9% of liver values for aminopyrine to 83% for ethoxycoumarin. HMPA-demethylase activity followed Michaelis-Menten kinetics in nasal mucosa microsomes but was biphasic in those from liver. SKF 525A, metyrapone, dioxolane and alpha-naphthoflavone (ANF), inhibitors of various P-450 monoxygenases, were examined with regard to inhibition of nasal and liver ethoxycoumarin deethylase. In addition, activity of epoxide hydrolase, glutathione S-transferase, DT-diaphorase and UDP-glucuronyltransferase (UDP-GT) in nasal tissue homogenates were investigated. These activities were generally lower than those present in the liver. Various attempts to increase the activity of oxidative enzymes in nasal tissue by PB, 3-MC and ethanol failed, 3-MC and PB doubled the microsomal UDP-GT and the epoxide hydrolase activities. The results together with data from the literature suggest that the balance between P-450 isozymes and detoxifying enzymes differs in the nose compared with the liver. The activities of these enzymes in nasal tissue of different strains of rats also varies substantially with implications regarding the metabolic fate and activation of inhaled xenobiotics.
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PMID:Biotransformation enzymes in nasal mucosa and liver of Sprague-Dawley rats. 321 44

Hepatic microsomes from rats starved 48 hours and refed diets containing zero, 3 or 20% corn oil metabolized benzo(a)pyrene, aniline and N-nitrosodimethylamine in proportion to the quantity of corn oil in the diet. No diet-related changes in apparent Km for these reactions were evident. The content of microsomal cytochrome P-450 was also clearly dependent upon the content of corn oil in the refed diets. When metabolism of these three substrates is expressed as product formed per unit of cytochrome P-450, the activities are least in microsomes from rats fed the 20% corn oil diet, suggesting that P-450 species responsible for metabolizing substrates other than these are enhanced preferentially. Cytosolic glutathione S-transferase activities are also increased with increasing corn oil in the diet. The administration of 3-MC increased cytochrome P-448 content of microsomes from all rats, regardless of diet, however highest content was present in microsomes from rats fed the 20% corn oil diet. Induction of benzo(a)pyrene hydroxylase was not influenced by dietary corn oil and, as anticipated, 3-MC caused significant repression of DMN N-demethylase in microsomes from rats fed the 20% corn oil diet. In like manner, 3-MC induced glutathione S-transferase only in cytosol from rats fed the fat-free diet.
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PMID:Role of dietary corn oil in the function of hepatic drug and carcinogen metabolizing enzymes of starved-refed rats: response to the mixed function oxidase inducer, 3-methylcholanthrene. 355 14

The effects of treating male Sprague-Dawley rats with phenobarbital, 3-methylcholanthrene or trans-stilbene oxide on cytosolic glutathione transferase and microsomal epoxide hydrolase activities in the liver, intestine, kidney, lung, testis, adrenal, spleen, heart and brain have been investigated. Studies on the time-courses of induction in liver demonstrate that these are complete after five days' treatment at the doses used. Phenobarbital induces both cytosolic glutathione transferase and microsomal epoxide hydrolase activities significantly only in liver and intestine. 3-Methylcholanthrene induces these activities in liver only. Trans-Stilbene oxide induces both of these activities in liver and kidney, and cytosolic glutathione transferase activity in adrenal as well.
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PMID:Induction of cytosolic glutathione transferase and microsomal epoxide hydrolase activities in extrahepatic organs of the rat by phenobarbital, 3-methylcholanthrene and trans-stilbene oxide. 646 99

The induction of a variety of drug-metabolizing enzymes by polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners that elicit a 2,3,7,8,-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)-type hepatic pleiotropic response, including 2,3,3',4,4'-pentachlorobiphenyl (BZ 105), 2,3',4,4',5-pentachlorobiphenyl (BZ 118), 2,3,3',4,4',5-hexachlorobiphenyl (BZ 156), and 3,3',4,4',5,5'-hexachlorobiphenyl (BZ 169) was examined. Following dietary exposure to the individual congeners for 5 days, livers were removed and catalytic assays for cytochrome P450 (CYP) isozymes 1A1 and 1A2 were performed. Additionally, total cellular RNA coding for hepatic drug-metabolizing genes (CYP 1A1, CYP 1A2, microsomal epoxide hydrolase, glutathione S-transferase [GST] Ya/Yc, and the TCDD-inducible isozyme of aldehyde dehydrogenase [ALDH] was quantified. 3-Methylcholanthrene (MC), TCDD, or BZ 156 (32 ppm) caused nearly maximal induction of the CYP 1A proteins but lower induction of the other genes. When the dose-response curves for induction of various drug-metabolizing genes (CYP 1A1 and 1A2, microsomal epoxide hydrolase, the GST Ya/Yc subfamily and ALDH) were examined, a spectrum of ED50s (half-maximal inductions) was observed. While CYP 1A2 exhibited an ED50 of 1.7 ppm, the induction of ALDH was shifted far to the right (ED50 > 11 ppm). Thus, different genes in a single tissue may display different dose-response characteristics. The potency (extent of induction of CYP 1A1 activity resulting from a given dietary dose) was BZ 169 >> BZ 156 > BZ 118 > BZ 105. In contrast, the potencies of the four congeners for CYP 1A1 induction were nearly equivalent when related to hepatic PCB burden, apparently due to the preferential accumulation in the liver of BZs 169 and 156 following low-level administration in the diet.
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PMID:Relative potencies of induction of hepatic drug-metabolizing enzyme genes by individual PCB congeners. 778 61

We characterized the inducing effects of two musk analogues, musk xylene and musk ambrette, on phase I and phase II drug-metabolizing enzymes in rat liver and compared their effects with 3-methylcholanthrene, isosafrole and 2(3)-tertbutylhydroxyanisole (BHA) at 0.1 mmol/kg dose level. Musk xylene and isosafrole increased more efficiently the metabolic activation of 2-amino-6-methyldipyrido[1,2-a:3',2'-d]imidazole (Glu-P-1) to mutagen than that of benzo(a)pyrene. Musk ambrette increased both the activation of Glu-P-1 and benzo(a)pyrene to the same extent. Western blot analyses revealed that musk xylene, musk ambrette, isosafrole and BHA induced more strongly cytochrome P450 1A2 (CYP1A2) in microsomes than CYP1A1. 3-Methylcholanthrene induced CYP1A1 in preference to CYP1A2. On the other hand, all drugs except for 3-methylcholanthrene did not show remarkable increases in phase II enzyme activities, such as DT-diaphorase, glutathione S-transferase and UDP-glucuronyltransferase, at 0.1 mmol/kg dose level. These results show that musk xylene, musk ambrette, isosafrole and BHA at the dose level used in this study possess the potency to induce CYP1A2 without remarkable induction of CYP1A1 and phase II enzyme activities as observed for 3-methylcholanthrene, although they have been considered to induce both phase I and phase II drug-metabolizing enzymes at higher doses.
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PMID:Induction of cytochrome P450 1A2 by musk analogues and other inducing agents in rat liver. 829 89


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