Studies with retrorsine have confirmed the formation of the n-oxide and pyrrolic metabolites /retrorsine pyrrole/ by the mixed-function oxidase system of the microsomal fraction of rat liver.
In animals, the major metabolic routes of pyrrolizidine alkaloids are: (a) hydrolysis of the ester groups; (b) N-oxidation; and (c) dehydrogenation of the pyrrolizidine nucleus to pyrrolic derivatives. Routes (a) and (b) are believed to be detoxification mechanisms. Route (c) leads to toxic metabolites. Route (a) occurs in liver and blood; routes (b) and (c) are brought about in the liver by the microsomal mixed function oxidase system. /pyrrolizidine alkaloids/
The in vivo metabolism and excretion of the urinary metabolites from the pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs), retrorsine (RET) and retrorsine-N-oxide (RET-NO) have been studied in rats. Isatinecic acid (INA), pyrrolic metabolites, N-oxides and retronecine accounted for 31.0, 10.3, 10.8 and 0.39% of the administered RET. Predosing rats with triorthocresyl phosphate (TOCP), had no effect on the excretion of pyrrolic metabolites and INA. Phenobarbital (PB) increased the excretion of both pyrrolic metabolites and INA with a corresponding decrease in the excretion of RET and N-oxides; the retronecin levels remained unaltered. When RET-NO was administered i.p., the urinary levels of pyrrolic metabolites, INA and RET were decreased relative to those treated with RET. The p.o. administration of RET-NO produced significantly higher levels of pyrrolic metabolites, INA and RET. These results suggest that esterase hydrolysis plays a minor role in the formation of INA and that a common metabolic pathway may exist between pyrrolic metabolites and INA formation.
...Retrorsine was administered to a cohort of young adult male rats and examined induction or enhanced expression of mRNA and protein for widely studied hepatic CYP isoforms spanning four families together with the essential enzyme CYP reductase. The protein levels of normally expressed CYPs 1A2, 2B1/2, and 2E1 increase significantly in rat liver microsomes from retrorsine-treated rats compared to untreated control rats (P< 0.05), but protein levels of CYP 4A3, CYP 3A1, and CYP reductase were unchanged after retrorsine treatment. In addition, CYP 1A1 mRNA and protein, which are not detectable in the livers of control rats, were induced after retrorsine exposure. The results of the present study demonstrate enhanced or induced expression of hepatic CYPs 1A1, 1A2, 2E1, and 2B1/2 in response to retrorsine exposure in rats, suggesting that one or more of these enzymes may be involved in retrorsine metabolism.
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毒理性
致癌性证据
没有关于人类的数据。动物致癌性的证据有限。总体评估:第3组:该物质对人类致癌性无法分类。
No data are available in humans. Limited evidence of carcinogenicity in animals. OVERALL EVALUATION: Group 3: The agent is not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans.
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毒理性
致癌物分类
国际癌症研究机构致癌剂:雷斯托辛
IARC Carcinogenic Agent:Retrorsine
来源:International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
毒理性
致癌物分类
国际癌症研究机构(IARC)致癌物分类:第3组:无法归类其对人类致癌性
IARC Carcinogenic Classes:Group 3: Not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans
来源:International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
毒理性
致癌物分类
国际癌症研究机构专著:第10卷:(1976年)一些天然存在的物质
IARC Monographs:Volume 10: (1976) Some Naturally Occurring Substances
来源:International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
...Weanling Porton Wistar rats were given single doses of 30 mg/kg body weight retrorsine by stomach tube...with whole-body irradiation of 400 rads 100 days after dosing, in 31 rats... In 25 survivors, there were 5 hepatomas, 5 mammary tumors, 2 renal carcinomas and 1 case each of carcinoma of the liver with pulmonary metastases, carcinoma of the lung, carcinoma of the colon, hemangioendothelioma of the spleen, osteosarcoma of the humerus, leukemia and spindle-cell tumor of the neck... /no controls presented/
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吸收、分配和排泄
在动物研究中,最高浓度被发现于肝脏、肺、肾脏和脾脏。/吡咯烷生物碱/
In animal studies highest concentrations were found in the liver, lungs, kidneys and spleen. /pyrrolizidine alkaloids/
When pyrrolizidine alkaloids, retrorsine 60 mg/kg, retrorsine n-oxide 60 mg/kg were administered ip to rats, 0.2-12.4% of the doses were excreted in the urine within 24 hr as metabolic pyrroles. There was a rough correlation between the hepatotoxicity of alkaloids and the amount of pyrroles to which they gave rise to in vivo. When rats were dosed orally or ip with retrorsine 50 mg/kg and sacrificed after various times, metabolic pyrroles were found bound strongly to the liver, and to /lesser/ extent the lung and other organs, for 48 hr or more after being formed.