title: Pharmacokinetics and biotransformation of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol in the rat.
abstract: 1. 14C-Diethylene glycol (DEG), administered orally to rats at 1, 5, and 10 ml/kg, gave elimination half-lives of 6, 6, and 10 h, respectively, from urinary excretion data. Half-logarithmic plots of urinary 14C excretion rates versus time indicated zero-order elimination for the first 9 and 18 h after oral doses of 5 and 10 ml of 14C-DEG/kg, respectively. 14C-DEG urinary elimination kinetics changed into first-order 6, 9, and 18 h after oral doses of 1, 5, and 10 ml/kg, with a half-life of 3 h. 2. After oral doses of 3 and 5 ml ethylene glycol (EG)/kg, half-lives of 4.5 and 4.1 h were estimated from cumulative urinary excretion data for non-metabolized EG. A half-life of 2 h was determined from half-logarithmic plots of urinary excretion rates of non-metabolized EG after the same oral doses of EG. 3. The urinary concentrations of non-metabolized DEG and its metabolite, 2-hydroxyethoxyacetic acid (2-HEAA), determined by high-resolution n.m.r. spectroscopy in the urine of rats doses with DEG were 61-68% and 16-31% dose, respectively. 4. Urinary concentrations of non-metabolized EG and its metabolite, glycolic acid (GA), determined by n.m.r., gave 62-67% for non-metabolized EG and 28.7% for GA following oral doses of EG. 5. Oxidation of DEG and EG in rats was accompanied by a change of urinary pH, reflecting metabolic acidosis. 6. Comparison of the KM for DEG oxidation in vitro by ADH with that of ethanol oxidation, showed a 680-fold difference in substrate affinity. DEG inhibited ethanol oxidation non-competitively, the Ki being 0.44 M.
authors.affiliation: Walther Straub-Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, Universität München, FRG.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lenk
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Löhr
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sonnenbichler
mesh_terms: D000138:Acidosis / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000652:urine; D000284:Administration, Oral; D000818:Animals; D001711:Biotransformation; D004231:Diuresis / Q000187:drug effects; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D019855:Ethylene Glycol; D005026:Ethylene Glycols / Q000493:pharmacokinetics* / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000652:urine; D008297:Male; D008657:Metabolic Clearance Rate; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D005026:Ethylene Glycols; C013484:diethylene glycol; D019855:Ethylene Glycol