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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-3-17
pubmed:abstractText
Cytochrome P-450 mediated metabolism is potentially involved in the expression of the pharmacological and/or toxicological effects of a wide variety of drugs and environmental chemicals upon tissues which contain this metabolic system. In the present investigation, the presence of cytochrome P-450IIE1 and associated mono-oxygenase activities in brain and the effect of chronic ethanol treatment on brain cytochrome P-450 (P-450) were studied. Aniline hydroxylase, N-nitroso-dimethylamine N-demethylase and p-nitrophenol hydroxylase activities (known to be mediated by P-450IIE1) were detectable in brain microsomes from untreated rats and were about 5%, 125% and 8.3%, respectively, of the corresponding hepatic levels. Chronic ethanol treatment resulted in induction of the above enzyme activities in brain microsomes by 243%, 496% and 155%, respectively. Intake of ethanol for a prolonged period also resulted in the induction of total P-450 in the brain (150% of the control). Addition of the antisera raised against rat liver cytochrome P-450IIE1 markedly inhibited brain microsomal p-nitrophenol hydroxylase activity. Immunoblot analysis of rat brain microsomes using the above antisera also revealed the induction of brain cytochrome P-450IIE1 following chronic ethanol administration. Immunocytochemical localization of cytochrome P-450IIE1 using the above antisera, revealed the preferential localization of the enzyme in the neuronal cell bodies in the cortex, hippocampus, basal ganglia, hypothalamic nuclei and reticular nuclei in the brainstem of rats treated chronically with ethanol. Based upon these studies, it is conceivable that chronic alcohol ingestion could enhance the sensitivity of certain regions of the brain to environmental chemicals that are metabolized to more toxic derivatives by the P-450 system.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0006-8993
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
22
pubmed:volume
601
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
279-85
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Carbon Monoxide, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Cytochrome P-450 CYP2E1, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Enzyme Induction, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Ethanol, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Liver, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Microsomes, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Microsomes, Liver, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Mixed Function Oxygenases, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Oxidoreductases, N-Demethylating, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:8431773-Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Induction of brain cytochrome P-450IIE1 by chronic ethanol treatment.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurochemistry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bangalore, India.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article