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Effect of phenobarbital pretreatment on in vitro enzyme kinetics and in vivo biotransformation of benzene in the rat.

Abstract：

:Phenobarbital pretreatment (50 mg/kg/day for 3 days orally) of male Wistar rats increased Vmax of benzene in vitro hepatic microsomal biotransformation about 6-fold without changing Km. However, benzene blood levels after oral, intraperitoneal, or subcutaneous benzene administration (3-3.5 mmoles/kg) were not influenced by phenobarbital pretreatment. The phenol blood levels after oral or intraperitoneal benzene were increased by phenobarbital pretreatment, but less than expected from in vitro data and only 3 h after benzene administration. Phenol elimination in urine after subcutaneous benzene was not affected by phenobarbital. After oral or intraperitoneal benzene administration, phenol urine excretion closely followed the levels of phenol in blood, i.e., rate of phenol urine excretion was significantly, but shortly increased, and the cumulative urine excretion of phenol increased very little or remained unchanged. Differences between the in vitro and in vivo observations of the effect of phenolbarbital on benzene biotransformation may partly be explained by distribution of benzene, which apparently limited benzene availability for biotransformation (Vd = 5.5) and caused rapid decrease of benzene concentrations in blood. Conditions for enzyme activity may have been substantially different in vitro vs. in vivo: in vitro concentrations of benzene were at least by an order of magnitude higher than phenol concentrations, while in vivo, an opposite relation prevailed making a competition for microsomal monooxygenase possible. Cofactor availability may be another rate-limiting step or factor of in vivo benzene biotransformation, as benzene ring hydroxylation requires high energy. The rate of in vitro hepatic microsomal benzene biotransformation proved to be of limited value when predicting benzene quantitative biotransformation in vivo in contradistinction to various substrates where the in vitro and in vivo biotransformation data are in good agreement.

journal_name

Arch Toxicol

journal_title

Archives of toxicology

authors

Gut I

doi

10.1007/BF00293567

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1976-06-08 00:00:00

pages

195-206

issue

eissn

0340-5761

issn

1432-0738

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Effect of phenobarbital pretreatment on in vitro enzyme kinetics and in vivo biotransformation of benzene in the rat.