Evidence for the active renal secretion of s-pentachlorophenyl-N-acetyl-L-cysteine by female rats |
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Authors: | Andrew G Smith Jean E Francis |
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Institution: | MRC Toxicology Unit, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Woodmansterne Road, Carshalton, Surrey SM5 4EF,U.K. |
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Abstract: | Male and female rats received 50 μmoles of pentachloronitrobenzene/kg by oral intubation daily for seven days. The final excreta were hydrolysed and analysed by electron capture GLC for the presence of pentachlorobenzenethiol and tetrachloro-1,4-benzenedithiol (derived from the equivalent N-acetylcysteine conjugates). No differences were found between the sexes for faeces and bile but the urinary excretion of both thiols by females was more than 10-fold greater than males. A similar result for urine was obtained following i.p. administration of a single 20 μmoles/kg dose of S-pentachlorophenyl -N-acetyl-L-cysteine (pentachlorophenyl mercapturate); in addition co-treatment with probenecid did not greatly change excretion by the males but considerably reduced excretion by females. The sex difference in the urinary levels of pentachlorophenyl N-acetylcysteine after 40 and 100 μmoles/kg doses of pentachloronitrobenzene was confirmed by h.p.l.c. of the mercapturate and again probenecid inhibited the excretion. Analysis of urine by TLC following a dose of 14C]hexachlorobenzene (8 μCi/kg; 0.67 μmoles/kg) showed that more radioactivity was associated with the mercapturate from female rats than males. The results suggest that S-pentachlorophenyl-N-acetyl-L-cysteine, a metabolite of hexachlorobenzene and pentachloronitrobenzene, may be excreted by an active renal secretion which is particularly developed in female F344 rats. |
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