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  • Title: Alterations of microsomal monooxygenase system and carcinogen metabolism by streptozotocin-induced diabetes in rats.
    Author: Peng R, Tennant P, Lorr NA, Yang CS.
    Journal: Carcinogenesis; 1983; 4(6):703-8. PubMed ID: 6305526.
    Abstract:
    The effects of diabetes on the liver microsomal monooxygenase enzymes and carcinogen metabolism have been studied in rats. Treatment with streptozotocin causes a marked enhancement in microsomal N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) demethylase activity. The enhancement is due mainly to the induction of a high affinity NDMA demethylase (Km, approximately 0.05 mM) which is accompanied by the induction of a protein species with mol. wt. of 50,000. The treatment also induces aniline hydroxylase whose activity is in parallel with NDMA demethylase. Streptozotocin-induced diabetes also increases the metabolism of N-nitrosomethylethylamine but not that of N-nitrosomethylaniline or N-nitrosomethylbenzylamine. On the other hand, diabetes decreases the metabolism of benzo[a]pyrene, benzphetamine, and ethylmorphine. The result suggest that diabetes causes an alteration of the composition of cytochrome P-450 isozymes; the forms efficient in metabolizing NDMA are increased while certain other forms of cytochrome P-450 are decreased.
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