title: Depression of liver drug metabolism in sarcoma-bearing mice. Evidence for a circulating factor and dissociation from lipolytic activity.
abstract: Mice bearing the S-180 sarcoma displayed a depression of liver catalase and cytochrome P-450-dependent enzymes (ethoxycoumarin deethylase, ED) from day 6 following tumor implantation. Injection of serum obtained from tumor-bearing mice into normal mice caused depression of liver ED suggesting that a circulating factor was involved. Tumor-bearing mice did not show any significant change in serum triglycerides and food intake. By contrast, injection of endotoxin, interleukin-1 (IL-1) or tumor necrosis factor (TNF) caused not only a depression in liver ED but also a marked increase in serum triglycerides. To study the possible analogies between cancer-associated circulating factor and monokines, we studied the effect of dexamethasone (a known inhibitor of monokine synthesis) on liver ED activity in tumor-bearing mice. Dexamethasone (DEX) treatment increased (up to 60%) liver ED activity in tumor-bearing mice. We conclude that: (i) a circulating factor is involved in cancer-associated ED depression; (ii) that this mediator is not necessarily identical to TNF or IL-1 and (iii) that DEX reverses the depression of liver ED in cancer, possibly by inhibiting the synthesis, or the effects, of this factor.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Enzyme Research, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bertini
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ghezzi
mesh_terms: D015660:7-Alkoxycoumarin O-Dealkylase; D000818:Animals; D002374:Catalase / Q000378:metabolism; D003907:Dexamethasone / Q000494:pharmacology; D004731:Endotoxins / Q000494:pharmacology; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000494:pharmacology; D007501:Iron / Q000097:blood; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D010105:Oxygenases / Q000378:metabolism; D012510:Sarcoma 180 / Q000201:enzymology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D004731:Endotoxins; D007375:Interleukin-1; D014280:Triglycerides; D003907:Dexamethasone; D007501:Iron; D002374:Catalase; D010105:Oxygenases; D015660:7-Alkoxycoumarin O-Dealkylase