Record Display for the EPA National Library Catalog

RECORD NUMBER: 14 OF 83

Main Title Comparative Effect of Pretreatment with Phenobarbital, Aroclor 1254, and beta-Naphthoflavone on the Metabolism of Lindane.
Author Chadwick, Robert W. ; Copeland, M. Frank ; Mole, M. Leonard ; Nesnow, Stephen ; Cooke, Nathaniel ;
CORP Author Health Effects Research Lab., Research Triangle Park, NC. Environmental Toxicology Div.
Year Published 1981
Report Number EPA-600/J-80-186;
Stock Number PB82-127580
Additional Subjects Pesticides ; Drugs ; Phenobarbital ; Chlorine organic compounds ; Metabolism ; Insecticides ; Rats ; Laboratory animals ; Reprints ; Lindane ; Naphthopyrane/phenyl ; Aroclor 1254
Holdings
Library Call Number Additional Info Location Last
Modified
Checkout
Status
NTIS  PB82-127580 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 19p
Abstract
An attempt was made to distinguish different patterns of microsomal enzyme induction by phenobarbital, beta-naphthoflavone, and Aroclor 1254 on the biotransformation and excretion of the organochlorine insecticide lindane. Treated groups of six weanling female Sprague-Dawley rats, individually housed in metabolism cages, received diets containing either 500 ppm Aroclor 1254, 356 ppm phenobarbital, or 418 ppm beta-naphthoflavone. After 1 week all animals, except one group of controls, were dosed p.o. with 1.89 mg lindane (containing 1.63 mu Ci(U-(14)C) lindane). Twenty four hours later the rats were sacrificed and urine, feces, expired air, and tissue samples were taken for analysis of radioactivity. Hepatic cytochrome P-450 content, microsomal phospholipid content, and the enzyme activity involved in the dehydrogenation of lindane, the dechlorination of lindane, and the hydroxylation of the intermediate hexachlorocyclohexene were determined in vitro. Moreover, the effect of pre-treatment on the excretion of radioactivity and the distribution of eight lindane metabolites was examined. Even though the rate of lindane metabolism was unchanged by the beta-naphthoflavone pre-treatment, results of the study indicated that all three pre-treatments significantly altered lindane metabolism. The pre-treatments differed from one another in that they selectively altered specific metabolic pathways.