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  • Title: Effects of piperonyl butoxide on cephalosporin nephrotoxicity in the rabbit. An effect on cephaloridine transport.
    Author: Tune BM, Kuo CH, Hook JB, Hsu CY, Fravert D.
    Journal: J Pharmacol Exp Ther; 1983 Mar; 224(3):520-4. PubMed ID: 6827476.
    Abstract:
    To evaluate the hypothesis that cytochrome P-450 mixed-function oxidase (MFO) activity may have a causal role in the production of cephalosporin nephrotoxicity, the effects of the MFO inhibitors cobaltous chloride and piperonyl butoxide on the nephrotoxicity of cephaloridine in the rabbit were examined. Although cobaltous chloride had no effect on cephaloridine nephrotoxicity, piperonyl butoxide had a significant protective effect. However, in correlated studies of the effects on the renal cortical uptake and disappearance of cephaloridine, it was found that piperonyl butoxide significantly reduces (by 50%) the cortical concentrations of the cephalosporin, both decreasing its uptake by and increasing its disappearance from tubular cells. Finally, we evaluated the effect of piperonyl butoxide on the nephrotoxicity of cephaloglycin, a more toxic cephalosporin that lacks the thiophene side-ring proposed as the target of MFO activation in earlier studies with cephaloridine. No protection against cephaloglycin was found. It is concluded that these inhibitors of MFO activity do not reduce cephalosporin nephrotoxicity in general, and that the reduction of cephaloridine toxicity by piperonyl butoxide can be explained by an effect on the intracellular concentrations of that particular cephalosporin.
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