The effect of ethanol on the metabolism of amphetamine by the rat
The effect of ethanol on the metabolism of amphetamine by the rat
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乙醇对大鼠苯丙胺代谢的影响
DOI:
10.1111/j.2042-7158.1969.tb08188.x
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1969
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T. Barbee
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作者:
P. Creaven;T. Barbee
In the course of an investigation into the effect of ethanol on the metabolism of amines we have studied the effect of pretreatment with ethanol on the metabolism of ( i)-[2-14C]amphetamine. Male Sprague-Dawley rats, 150 g, housed in metabolism cages received ethanol, 5 g/kg, as a 25% solution (v/v) by stomach tube followed 30 min later by ( &)-[2-14C]amphetamine sulphate (1 *6 mCi/mmol), 5 mg/kg, intraperitoneally in 0.5 ml of isotonic saline. Control animals received an appropriate volume of isotonic saline by stomach tube and the same dose of ( *)-[2-l4C]arnphetamine sulphate. The pH of the urine was measured immediately after voiding, and the urine frozen. The urinary pH (5-5-6.8) was not altered by ethanol treatment. Urine was chromatographed in two dimensions on Whatman 3MM paper in n-butanol -acetic acid-water (4 : 1 : 1 v/v> followed by isopropanol-ammonia-water (8 : 1 : 1 v/v). The metabolites, located by autoradiography, were cut out and the radioactivity counted in a Packard Model 3375 liquid scintillation counter. Amphetamine, p-hydroxyamphetamine and p-hydroxyamphetamine glucuronide accounted for over 85;/, of the urinary radioactivity. Amphetamine and total p-hydroxyamphetamine were also determined by the method of Axelrod (1954) after treatment of the urine with P-glucuronidase. Amphetamine was further determined by isotope dilution and recrystallization to constant specific activity. The identification of p-hydroxyamphetamine glucuronide was confirmed by hydrolysis of the eluate from chromatograms with /Lglucuronidase which converted it quantitatively to p-hydroxyamphetamine. Recovery of radioactivity in the urine in the first 24 h after dosing with amphetamine had a mean value of 77% for both control and ethanol-treated animals. The percentage of the urinary radioactivity present as amphetamine was greatly increased and that as free and conjugated p-hydroxyamphetamine greatly reduced by ethanol pretreatment : control and ethanol pretreated values being, respectively, 16.5 5.28 and 65.4 & 6.91 for amphetamine ( P t0.001); 7.3 f 3.60 and 2.4 f 1.49 for p-hydroxyamphetamine (P< 0.005) ; 61-8 & 4.04 and 20.9 & 5.99 for p-hydroxyamphetamine glucuronide ( P t0.001) (means for 6 animals & s.d.). The proportion of p-hydroxyamphetamine excreted in the free form (about 10% of the total p-hydroxyamphetamine) was the same in each group. Ethanol pretreatment has a profound effect on the pattern of metabolism of noradrenaline, 5-hydroxytryptamine and tyramine (Davis, Brown & others, 1967, 1967a; Tacker, Creaven & McIsaac, 1969). However, these amines are deaminated by monoamine oxidase and the effect of ethanol is to increase the reduction of the intermediate aldehyde so formed. Amphetamine is metabolized in the rat largely by hydroxylation of the benzene ring (Axelrod 1954) so that no effect of ethanol on its metabolism would be expected. Whether the observed effect of ethanol on amphetamine metabolism is specific or is a general effect on aromatic hydroxylation, and whether the metabolic interaction of these two commonly abused drugs occurs also in man, is still unknown since the pattern of amphetamine metabolism in man is different from that in the rat (Dring, Smith & Williams, 1966). This work was supported by grant MH 144340-2, U.S. Public Health Service.