title: Inhibitory effect of propylthiouracil on the development of metabolic tolerance to ethanol.
abstract: Chronic ethanol administration (4-5 weeks) to female spontaneously hypertensive (SH) rats led to a marked increase in the rate of ethanol metabolism. This was accompanied by an increase in hepatic alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and by an increase in the rate of oxygen consumption in perfused livers of these animals. Treatment with the antithyroid drug 6-n-propyl-2-thiouracil (PTU) during the last 9 days (40 mg/kg/day) of the chronic administration of ethanol reduced hepatic oxygen consumption, resulting in a net diminution of the metabolic tolerance to ethanol, despite a further elevation in ADH activity. In these animals, microsomal ethanol-oxidizing system (MEOS) activity was not affected by chronic ethanol administration or by treatment with PTU. Data strongly suggest that in the female SH rat all the metabolic tolerance to ethanol proceeds via the ADH pathway, and that the increase in hepatic oxygen consumption is more important in the development of metabolic tolerance to ethanol than the increased ADH levels.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rachamin
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Okuno
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Israel
mesh_terms: D000426:Alcohol Dehydrogenase; D000429:Alcohol Oxidoreductases / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000032:analysis; D004361:Drug Tolerance; D000431:Ethanol / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D009929:Organ Size / Q000187:drug effects; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000187:drug effects; D010477:Perfusion; D011441:Propylthiouracil / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D011918:Rats, Inbred SHR; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D000431:Ethanol; D011441:Propylthiouracil; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; D000429:Alcohol Oxidoreductases; D000426:Alcohol Dehydrogenase