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  • Title: Rapid, substrate-specific, and dose-dependent deactivation of liver cytosolic glutathione S-transferases in vivo by 1,1-dichloroethylene.
    Author: Moslen MT, Reynolds ES.
    Journal: Res Commun Chem Pathol Pharmacol; 1985 Jan; 47(1):59-72. PubMed ID: 3983471.
    Abstract:
    Administration of 200 mg 1,1-dichloroethylene (1,1-DCE)/kg to fasted male rats rapidly decreased liver cytosolic glutathione (GSH) S-transferase activities by half within 1 hr. This early decrease was not associated with increased serum activities of this soluble enzyme and is considered due to enzyme deactivation. The early decrease in enzyme activities was concomitant with a three-fourths depletion of cytosolic GSH and preceded changes in cytochrome P-450 and the onset of liver cytotoxicity, both of which occurred abruptly between 2 and 3 hr. Substantial changes in GSH S-transferase activities at 4 hr were produced only by severely hepatotoxic doses of 1,1-DCE. The early decrease in hepatic GSH S-transferase activities was selective for substrates dichloronitrobenzene, chlorodinitrobenzene and 1,2-epoxy-3-(p-nitrophenoxy)-propane with apparent sparing of activity towards ethacrynic acid. The rapid, selective and dose-dependent deactivation of the hepatic GSH S-transferases could be relevant to the catastrophic hepatotoxicity of 1,1-DCE.
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