TY - JOUR
T1 - Apparent induction of microsomal carboxylesterase activities in tissues of clofibrate-fed mice and rats
AU - Ashour, Mohamed Bassem A
AU - Moody, David E.
AU - Hammock, Bruce D.
PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - Treatment with 0.5% ( w w) dietary clofibrate, a peroxisome proliferator, for 14 days induced microsomal carboxylesterase activities for five substrates including malathion, clofibrate, diethylsuccinate, diethylphthalate, and p-nitrophenylacetate in liver and kidney of male Swiss-Webster mice and Sprague-Dawley rats. The induction was substrate, tissue, and species dependent. The carboxylesterase activity was induced in mouse from 1.2- to 2.2-fold (liver) and from 1.1- to 1.7-fold (kidney) depending upon substrate used. Analogous values from rat ranged from 1.0- to 1.4-fold (liver) and from 1.1- to 1.8-fold (kidney). Enzyme activities were either decreased or not affected in testes of treated mice and rats. Substituted trifluoroketones ("transition-state" inhibitors of carboxylesterase) were found to be very potent inhibitors of clofibrate-metabolizing carboxylesterase(s) and to be potentially useful in distinguishing among isozymes. The inhibition data suggested that changes in carboxylesterase activity following clofibrate treatment were both qualitative and quantitative.
AB - Treatment with 0.5% ( w w) dietary clofibrate, a peroxisome proliferator, for 14 days induced microsomal carboxylesterase activities for five substrates including malathion, clofibrate, diethylsuccinate, diethylphthalate, and p-nitrophenylacetate in liver and kidney of male Swiss-Webster mice and Sprague-Dawley rats. The induction was substrate, tissue, and species dependent. The carboxylesterase activity was induced in mouse from 1.2- to 2.2-fold (liver) and from 1.1- to 1.7-fold (kidney) depending upon substrate used. Analogous values from rat ranged from 1.0- to 1.4-fold (liver) and from 1.1- to 1.8-fold (kidney). Enzyme activities were either decreased or not affected in testes of treated mice and rats. Substituted trifluoroketones ("transition-state" inhibitors of carboxylesterase) were found to be very potent inhibitors of clofibrate-metabolizing carboxylesterase(s) and to be potentially useful in distinguishing among isozymes. The inhibition data suggested that changes in carboxylesterase activity following clofibrate treatment were both qualitative and quantitative.
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U2 - 10.1016/0041-008X(87)90155-4
DO - 10.1016/0041-008X(87)90155-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 3603566
AN - SCOPUS:0023184183
VL - 89
SP - 361
EP - 369
JO - Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
JF - Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
SN - 0041-008X
IS - 3
ER -