title: Effects of hypophysectomy and growth hormone treatment on sex-specific forms of cytochrome P-450 in relation to drug and steroid metabolisms in rat liver microsomes.
abstract: Hypophysectomy decreased the content of a male specific cytochrome P-450, P-450-male, in male rats, while it expressed P-450-male and completely depressed a female specific cytochrome P-450, P-450-female, in female rats. Intermittent injections of human growth hormone (GH), which mimic the secretion in males, restored P-450-male in hypophysectomized (Hypox) male rats and partially restored P-450-female in Hypox female rats. Continuous infusion of GH, which mimics the female secretion pattern, into Hypox male rats caused a further decrease in P-450-male content, and it caused the expression of P-450-female. In Hypox female rats, the same treatment depressed P-450-male and expressed P-450-female to the level of an intact female. These results indicate that the diurnal changes in the pattern of serum growth hormone level regulate the expression of P-450-male and P-450-female. The activities of testosterone 2 alpha- and 16 alpha-hydroxylases were closely correlated to P-450-male content with the correlation coefficients (r) of 0.955 and 0.929, respectively. Benzo(a)pyrene hydroxylation was also correlated to P-450-male content (r = 0.850). Aminopyrine N-demethylation and propoxycoumarin O-depropylation were correlated to less extents (r = 0.692 and r = 0.720), while aniline hydroxylation and O-ethylresorufin O-deethylation were not correlated to P-450-male content. These results indicate that testosterone 2 alpha- and 16 alpha-hydroxylations are closely dependent, but the metabolism of a variety of drugs are dependent to different extents on P-450-male in rat liver microsomes.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007016:Hypophysectomy; D007120:Immunochemistry; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012737:Sex Factors; D013256:Steroids / Q000378:metabolism*; D013739:Testosterone / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D013256:Steroids; D013739:Testosterone; D013006:Growth Hormone; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System