ISSN:
1432-0738
Keywords:
Key words Chloroform
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Toxicokinetics
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Ethanol
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Enzyme induction
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Dose
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Route of administration
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract The effects of a single dose of ethanol on the metabolism and toxicity of chloroform administered to rats per os (p.o.), intraperitoneally (i.p.), or by inhalation (inh) at different doses were investigated. Rats that had been given either ethanol (2 g/kg) or vehicle (water) alone at 4 p.m. on the previous day were challenged with chloroform at 10 a.m. p.o. (0, 0.1, 0.2, or 0.4 g/kg), i.p. (0, 0.1, 0.2, or 0.4 g/kg), or inh (for 6 h each at 0, 50, 100, or 500 ppm). The ethanol treatment, which had no influence on the intake of food and water, increased chloroform metabolism in vitro about 1.5-fold with no significant influence on liver glutathione content. The treatment had a dose-dependent effect on the metabolism and toxicity of chloroform, and the effect differed depending on the route of administration. Compared at the same dose level, the area under the curve (AUC) of blood chloroform concentration was invariably smaller following p.o. than i.p. administration. In accordance with this, chloroform administered p.o. caused more deleterious hepatic damage than the same amount of chloroform administered i.p. Although ethanol treatment had no significant influence on the AUC at any dose by any route of administration, the toxicity of p.o.-administered chloroform was significantly higher in ethanol-treated rats than in control rats at a dose as low as 0.1 g/kg, whereas no significant difference was observed in toxicity between both groups of rats at such a low dose administered i.p. When rats were exposed inh to air containing chloroform vapor, ethanol consumption had no effect on hepatotoxicity until the exposure concentration was raised to 500 ppm, a finding which suggests that a single dose of ethanol (2 g/kg) affects the toxicokinetics of inhaled chloroform in rats only at a concentration as high as 500 ppm.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002040050131
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