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Metabolism of [14C]benzene by cynomolgus monkeys and chimpanzees.

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:Rodent bioassays indicate that B6C3F1 mice are more sensitive to the carcinogenicity of benzene than are rats. The urinary profile of benzene metabolites is different in rats vs mice. Mice produce higher proportions of hydroquinone conjugates and muconic acid, indicators of metabolism via pathways leading to putative toxic metabolites, than do rats. In both species, metabolism to hydroquinone and muconic acid is favored at low concentrations of benzene, indicating that these pathways are easily saturated. These species differences in the metabolism of benzene make it difficult to predict the health risk to humans and how this risk varies with dose. For this reason, the metabolism of [14C]benzene by cynomolgus monkeys and chimpanzees, animals phylogenetically closer to humans than rodents, was studied. Monkeys were dosed ip with 5, 50, or 500 mg [14C]benzene/kg body wt. Urine was collected for up to 24 hr following exposure and was analyzed for benzene metabolites. The proportion of the administered 14C excreted in the urine of monkeys decreased from approximately 50 to 15% as the dose increased. Phenyl sulfate was the major urinary metabolite. The proportion of hydroquinone conjugates and muconic acid in the monkey's urine decreased as the dose increased. The proportion of catechol conjugates was not affected by dose. The proportion of these metabolites in the urine was quite variable from animal to animal, but the proportion of muconic acid was consistently much lower in the monkey than in the mouse or rat. Three chimpanzees were administered 1 mg [14C]benzene/kg body wt, iv; essentially all of the injected 14C was recovered in the urine. Of the total urinary metabolites, 79% were accounted for by phenyl conjugates and less than 15% by hydroquinone conjugates or muconic acid. Catechol conjugates were not detected. The metabolism of benzene appeared to be qualitatively similar but quantitatively different in the species studied. The mouse, the sensitive rodent species, forms the highest levels of hydroquinone conjugates and muconic acid and the chimpanzee, the lowest. In all animal species studied for the effect of dose on benzene metabolism, as the dose decreased, a larger proportion of the benzene metabolites was represented by hydroquinone conjugates and muconic acid.

journal_name

Toxicol Appl Pharmacol

journal_title

Toxicology and applied pharmacology

authors

Sabourin PJ,Muggenburg BA,Couch RC,Lefler D,Lucier G,Birnbaum LS,Henderson RF

doi

10.1016/0041-008x(92)90078-7

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1992-06-01 00:00:00

pages

277-84

issue

eissn

0041-008X

issn

1096-0333

journal_volume

114

pub_type

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Metabolism of [14C]benzene by cynomolgus monkeys and chimpanzees.