Differential toxicity of aflatoxin B1 in male and female rats: relationship with hepatic drug-metabolizing enzymes |
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Authors: | L Kamdem G Siest J Magdalou |
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Affiliation: | Laboratoire de Biochimie Pharmacologique ERA-CNRS n° 698, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, 7, rue Albert Lebrun, 54000 Nancy, France |
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Abstract: | It is well known that distinct differences in the metabolism of xenobiotics exist between males and females of the same species. Male and female rats were treated with a single intraperitoneal dose of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1): 1 or 3 mg/kg for males, 3 or 6 mg/kg for females. Comparative changes in hepatic drug metabolizing and plasma enzymes had been studied. The obtained results show that, at the common dose of 3 mg/kg, AFB1 induced an 18% mortality in males and none in females. In the plasma, total bilirubin concentration as well as the activity of transaminases and alkaline phosphatase (ALP), utilized as indicators of liver damage, were highly increased in both males and females due to the treatment with 3 or 6 mg AFB1/kg. In the female, the plasma features rapidly declined. In contrast, in the male, the effect of AFB1 was prolonged. Hepatic determinations revealed a pattern difference of drug metabolizing enzymes and cytochrome P-450 between males and females. The results also show that in the male, most of the drug metabolizing enzyme activities were decreased until the ninth day with the 3 mg/kg treatment. So, we observed a decrease in the activities of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UDPGT) with p-nitrophenol as substrate (PNP) and GSH S-transferase, 40 and 53% respectively; while the activity of epoxide hydrolase was increased up to 170%. In the meantime, the concentration of cytochrome P-450 decreased by 69%. By contrast, in the case of the female, these decreases were only 14, 43 and 23% for the UDPGT, GSH S-transferase and cytochrome P-450, respectively. Moreover, these decreases occurred only during the first three days after treatment. Thereafter, these enzyme activities significantly increased above the control values. This study suggests that the induction of detoxicating enzymes, more important in the female (72% increase in the activity of UDPGT, 480% in that of epoxide hydrolase and 42% for GSH S-transferase, may have a protective role against AFB1 metabolites and could explain, partly, the lower sensitivity of the female to the toxic effects of AFB1. |
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Keywords: | UDPGT, uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase SO, sytrene oxide GSH, glutathione AST, aspartate aminotransferase ALT, alanine aminotransferase ALP, alkaline phosphatase |
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