Journal article
Effect of genetic obesity and phenobarbital treatment on the hepatic conjugation pathways
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics, Vol.265(3), pp.1333-1338
06/1993
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3565(25)38273-X
PMID: 8510012
Abstract
The effect of genetic obesity and phenobarbital treatment on hepatic conjugation pathways was evaluated in the obese Zucker rat. Acetaminophen pharmacokinetic parameters were examined in vivo after a 30-mg/kg acetaminophen intravenous bolus dose in the presence and absence of phenobarbital treatment. Glucuronidation and glutathione conjugation pathways were studied in vitro in obese and lean Zucker rats after phenobarbital treatment. Obese Zucker rats demonstrated a higher glucuronidation capacity as evidenced by a higher formation clearance of acetaminophen glucuronide and greater UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UDPGT) activity toward acetaminophen and p-nitrophenol compared with lean controls. Sulfate and glutathione conjugation pathways were not affected by genetic obesity. Obese Zucker rats possessed a higher total hepatic glutathione content due to greater liver weight. Phenobarbital treatment enhanced glucuronidation of acetaminophen and structurally related compounds (i.e., p-nitrophenol) similarly in both phenotypes, but the treatment failed to induce morphine UDPGT in the obese Zucker rat. No effect of phenobarbital was observed on sulfate conjugation, gamma-glutamyl cysteine synthetase activity or hepatic glutathione content in obese or lean Zucker rats. Similar increases in glutathione transferase activities were observed in animals of both phenotypes after phenobarbital treatment. This study demonstrates that glucuronidation is enhanced in genetically obese rats, whereas phenobarbital causes normal induction of several enzymes of the glucuronidation and glutathione conjugation pathways in the obese Zucker rat. However, morphine UDPGT was not induced by phenobarbital, suggesting that obese Zucker rats may possess a defect in the induction of this enzyme similar to that already described for the CYP2B gene in this strain.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Effect of genetic obesity and phenobarbital treatment on the hepatic conjugation pathways
- Creators
- Inder P Chaudhary - Division of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, LexingtonSomsong TuntaterdtumPatrick J McNamaraLarry W RobertsonRobert A Blouin
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics, Vol.265(3), pp.1333-1338
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0022-3565(25)38273-X
- PMID
- 8510012
- ISSN
- 0022-3565
- eISSN
- 1521-0103
- Grant note
- GM 42058 / NIGMS NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/1993
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Neonatology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984002425002771
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