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Studies on the metabolism of a monoterpene ketone, R-(+)-pulegone--a hepatotoxin in rat: isolation and characterization of new metabolites.

1. The metabolic disposition of R-(+)-pulegone (I) was examined in rats following four daily oral doses (250 mg/kg). 2. Six metabolites, namely pulegol (II), 2-hydroxy-2-(1-hydroxy-1-methylethyl)-5-methylcyclohexanone (III), 3,6-dimethyl-7a-hydroxy-5,6,7,7a-tetrahydro-2(4H)-benzofuranone (IV), menthofuran (V), 5-methyl-2-(1-methyl-1-carboxyethylidene)cyclohexanone (VI), and 5-methyl-5-hydroxy-2-(1-hydroxy-1-carboxyethyl)cyclohexanone (VII) have previously been isolated from rat urine, and identified (Moorthy et al. (1989a). Eight new metabolites have now been isolated from rat urine, namely, 5-hydroxy-pulegone (VIII), piperitone (IX), piperitenone (X), 7-hydroxy-piperitone (XI), 8-hydroxy piperitone (XII), p-cresol (XIII), geranic acid (XIV) and neronic acid (XV). These were identified by n.m.r., i.r. and mass spectrometry. 3. Based on these results, metabolic pathways for the biotransformation of R-(+)-pulegone in rat have been proposed.

Animals↗

Methodological approach to the evaluation of neurotoxicity data and the classification of neurotoxic chemicals.

This text is the result of the authors' involvement in a working group on criteria for the identification and classification of neurotoxic chemicals. (The work of the group does not necessarily represent the official stand of the affiliated institutes.) A definition of neurotoxicity and criteria for evaluating studies dealing with neurotoxicology are presented. The evaluation is a stepwise process that ends with assigning the chemicals to groups depending on the available evidence for neurotoxicity (ie, neurotoxic, probably neurotoxic, possibly neurotoxic, probably not neurotoxic, or not classifiable). Finally, the description of the potency of neurotoxic chemicals is briefly discussed. The model has been tested by evaluating selected research papers on the following 10 chemicals: manganese, aluminum, tetrahydrofuran, cyclohexanone, dichlorvos, trichloroethylene, formaldehyde, tri-ortho-cresyl phosphate, n-hexane, and vinyl chloride. There was sufficient evidence for classifying five of the ten chemicals (aluminum, manganese, n-hexane, trichloroethylene, tri-ortho-cresyl phosphate) as definitely neurotoxic to humans, and three were considered to be possibly neurotoxic to humans (dichlorvos, tetrahydrofuran, vinyl chloride). Cyclohexanone and formaldehyde were not classifiable according to the model.

Animals↗

Chromatographic analysis in bacteriologic diagnostics of blood cultures, exudates, and bronchoalveolar lavages.

This article summarizes our previously achieved and published results. The method for the determination of bacterial volatile fatty acid patterns (VFA) in clinical samples was elaborated. It employs gas chromatography (GC), solvent extraction or head-space solid phase microextraction (SPME). This method was validated by analyses of reference bacterial strains. After cultivation in defined media, aerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria provided profiles with a low or none acid content, while anaerobic bacteria provided characteristic but medium-dependent profiles with a higher acid content. This method was used for the analyses of clinical samples of total 375 blood cultures, 205 suppurative and apyogenous exudates, and 210 bronchoalveolar lavages (BALs). These analyses enabled within 30 minutes the detection of microbes, probably non-sporulating anaerobes not found by false-negative cultivation, in 11.2% of blood cultures, in 20.0% of exudates, and in 9.0 to 20.0% of BALs. Using the mass spectrometry (MS) methods, a number of other components with unclear diagnostic importance were found in BAL samples, in particular hydrogen cyanide, methanol, ethanol, hexanol, acetone, cyclohexanone, acetonitrile, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, ethyl acetate, and other esters. Cyclohexanone, occurring mainly in BALs of patients with pneumonia, undergoing intensive care, may originate as a residual solvent from the plastic parts of the ventilation apparatus.

Bacteria, Anaerobic↗

[Effects of aromatic bisamidines on blood coagulation and fibrinolysis].

The effect of the aromatic diamidine derivative 2,6-bis (4-amidinobenzyl)-cyclohexanon-(1) on blood coagulation and fibrinolysis in vitro and in vivo was compared with that of the benzamidine derivative 4-amidinophenyl pyruvic acid and the aromatic diamidine derivative 4,4'-diamidinophenoxypentane. 2,6-Bis(4-amidinobenzyl)-cyclohexanon-(1) was found to be a strong inhibitor of the clotting enzyme thrombin. Because of the toxic side effects and pharmacokinetic properties of both diamidine derivatives their in vivo use as anticoagulants is limited.

Amidines↗

Antimycobacterial arylidenecyclohexanones and related Mannich bases.

Several series of 2-arylidenecyclohexanones and related Mannich bases as well as various 2,6-bis(arylidene)cyclohexanones were evaluated against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. Using a concentration of 12.5 microg/ml, nearly half of the unsaturated ketones inhibited the growth of the microorganism by 21-66% while all of the Mannich bases achieved 99% or greater inhibition. The relative hydrophobicities and widths of the molecules may have been contributing factors as to whether bioactivity was present or absent. Two of the Mannich bases demonstrated noteworthy potencies towards Mycobacterium avium. The conclusion was drawn that Mannich bases of 2-arylidenecyclohexanones represent a novel class of antimycobacterials.

Animals↗

Absorption and alveolar excretion of cyclohexane in workers in a shoe factory.

The lung uptake and excretion of cyclohexane were studied in five workers and three volunteers in a shoe factory. Air samples were collected from the breathing zones with personal samplers, and simultaneous samples of inhaled and alveolar air were collected with the aid of a Rhan-Otis valve. Cyclohexane was absorbed on activated NIOSH approved charcoal tubes. The uptake was calculated from the pulmonary ventilation, the retention coefficient and environmental concentration. Alveolar excretion was monitored during a 6 h post-exposure period. The amount of exhaled cyclohexane was calculated from the decay curve. According to experimental data, the alveolar retention of cyclohexane is about 34% of the inhaled dose. This corresponds to a lung uptake of 23%. The post-exposure alveolar excretion does not exceed 10% of the total uptake. The difference between respiratory uptake and excretion indicates that the amount metabolized may be very large. Nevertheless, the urinary excretion of the main metabolites, cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone, was only about 1% of the absorbed dose.

Absorption↗

Microenvironmental kinetic effects within a lyotropic smectic biophase model: conformational restrictions in Fischer indole cyclization.

The microenvironmental orientation effects, arising from an orderer solvent structure, were studied in a model liquid crystalline biophase for the cyclization of a series of 2-substituted cyclohexanone phenylhydrazones. The magnitude of such solvent-induced intramolecular conformational constraints were determined from a comparison of the kinetics of the Fischer indole rearrangement in a lyotropic smectic liquid crystal versus those in an isotropic liquid of similar chemical composition but lacking the structured nature of the mesophase. Solutions consisting of 50% (w/w) polyoxyethylene 6 tridecyl ether or 44% (w/v) polyethylene glycol in aqueous buffers comprised the smectic or isotropic media, respectively. The apparent dissociation constants of the conjugate acids of the phenylhydrazones were determined kinetically, as were their partition coefficients between lipid and polar isotropic phases approximating the compositions of the smectic lamellae. Intrinsic first-order rate constants, corrected for partitioning within the lamellar mesophase, were used to compute the enthalpies and entropies of activation. The somewhat slower intrinsic rates of cyclization and the accompanying less negative entropies of activation generally observed in the liquid crystalline medium, as opposed to the isotropic system, are attributed to the orienting effects of the lamellar lyotropic mesophase.

Chemical Phenomena↗

Novel magnesium ion-selective microelectrodes based on a neutral carrier.

Two types of Mg(2+)-selective microelectrodes based on a synthetic neutral carrier and containing poly-(vinyl chloride) (PVC) are described. The first is applicable to intracellular Mg2+ assays and suffers no interference from alkali and all other alkaline-earth metal cations. The second can be used for determining intra- as well as extracellular Mg2+ activities, but Ca2+ and especially lipophilic cations (e.g. acetylcholine) may interfere. Cyclohexanone is used for dissolving the PVC-containing membrane phases thus avoiding problems encountered with the much more volatile tetrahydrofuran. The procedure gives a higher output of working microelectrodes and can also be applied with other membrane phases.

Calcium↗

[FeS/FeS2], a redox system for the origin of life (some experiments on the pyrite-hypothesis).

The FeS/FeS, redox system, whose importance is stressed in recent theories on the origin of life, has been tested experimentally. In this paper it is demonstrated by thermodynamical calculations as well as by experiments, that cyclohexanone, which served as model compound, can be reduced by the aforementioned redox system. Reactions were carried out in methanol and DMF at 25 degrees C and at 100 degrees C. Besides products that were synthesised in both solvents, like cyclohexanethiol and dicyclohexydisulphide, special compounds were obtained in methanol and in DMF, because of the involvement of the respective solvent in the reaction. Yields of reduced compounds were lower in methanol owing to compound that hindered the reduction (cyclohexylketal). With increasing temperature and duration the amount of reduced compounds increased. Further experiments have shown that 1,1-cyclohexanedithiol is likely to be a necessary intermediate for the reduced products. The experiments give evidence to the 'pyrite hypothesis', which postulates that the FeS/FeS2, redox system was of importance for the origin of life.

Cyclohexanones↗

3-carbamoyl-alpha-picolinic acid production by imidase-catalyzed regioselective hydrolysis of 2,3-pyridinedicarboximide in a water-organic solvent, two-phase system.

3-Carbamoyl-alpha-picolinic acid, a versatile building block for the synthesis of agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals, was prepared by imidase-catalyzed regiospecific hydrolysis of 2,3-pyridinedicarboximide with intact Arthrobacter ureafaciens O-86 cells. Reactions were carried out in a water-organic solvent, two-phase system containing cyclohexanone at low pH to avoid spontaneous random hydrolysis. Under the optimized conditions, with the periodic addition of 2,3-pyridinedicarboximide (in total, 40 mM), the 3-carbamoyl-alpha-picolinic acid yield reached 36.6 mM in the water phase, with a molar conversion yield of 91.5% and a regioisomeric purity of 94.5%, in 2 h at pH 5.5.

Amidohydrolases↗

Diacylglycerol breakdown in plasma membranes of bovine chromaffin cells is a two-step mechanism mediated by a diacylglycerol lipase and a monoacylglycerol lipase.

The recently identified diacylglycerol lipase activity in membranes of chromaffin cells from bovine adrenal medulla [24] is now shown to consist of two enzymes working in series. First the predominantly saturated fatty acid in the sn-1-position is split by a diacylglycerol lipase (glycerol ester hydrolase, EC 3.1.1.34). Subsequently the resulting sn-2-monoacylglycerol is split by a monoacylglycerol lipase (glycerol-monoester acylhydrolase, EC 3.1.1.23) which prefers sn-2-arachidonoyl-monoacylglycerol to sn-2-palmitoyl-monoacylglycerol. At pH 4.0 only the diacylglycerol lipase is active, whereas the monoacylglycerol lipase is irreversibly inactivated. At pH 6.0 both enzymes are active. Pretreatment of the membranes at pH 10 leads to the selective inactivation of the diacylglycerol lipase. Both enzymes are Ca2+- and calmodulin-independent and both are partially inhibited by p-bromophenacyl bromide, however, only at relatively high concentrations of the inhibitor. Chlorpromazine inhibits the diacylglycerol lipase to about the same extent as p-bromophenacyl bromide but the monoacylglycerol lipase is less sensitive. The specific diacylglycerol lipase inhibitor RHC 80267 (1,6-di(O-(carbamoyl)cyclohexanone oxime)hexane) only interacts with the first step, i.e. the diacylglycerol lipase.

Acetophenones↗

The inhibition of arachidonic acid metabolism in human platelets by RHC 80267, a diacylglycerol lipase inhibitor.

The diacylglycerol lipase inhibitor, RHC 80267, 1,6-di(O-(carbamoyl)cyclohexanone oxime)hexane, was tested for its ability to block the release of arachidonic acid from human platelets. At a concentration (10 microM) reported to completely inhibit diacylglycerol lipase in fractions of broken platelets, RHC 80267 had no effect on diacylglycerol lipase activity or the release of arachidonic acid from washed human platelets stimulated with collagen. At a high concentration (250 microM), the compound inhibited the formation of arachidonyl-monoacylglycerol by 70% and the release of arachidonate by 60%. However, at this concentration RHC 80267 was found to inhibit cyclooxygenase activity, phospholipase C activity and the hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine (PC) (presumably by inhibiting phospholipase A2). The phospholipase C inhibition was attributed to the inhibition of prostaglandin H2 formation, as it was alleviated by the addition of the endoperoxide analog, U-46619. PC hydrolysis was only partially restored with U-46619, suggesting that RHC 80267 directly alters phospholipase A2 activity. The inhibition of arachidonate release observed was accounted for by the inhibition of PC hydrolysis. We conclude that RHC 80267, because of its lack of specificity at concentrations needed to inhibit diacylglycerol lipase, is an unsuitable inhibitor for studying the release of arachidonic acid in intact human platelets.

15-Hydroxy-11 alpha,9 alpha-(epoxymethano)prosta-5↗

Inhibition of the effects of thrombin on guinea pig platelets by the diacylglycerol lipase inhibitor RHC 80267.

Phospholipase C (PLC) and diacylglycerol lipase (DGL) activities were found in guinea pig platelet microsome preparations. No phospholipase A2 (PLA2) activity was detected. RHC 80267 (1,6-di (0-(carbamoyl) cyclohexanone oxime)hexane) inhibited DGL activity (IC50 = 4 uM) from guinea pig platelet microsomes but had no effect on PLC. RHC 80267 inhibited platelet aggregation (IC50 = 11 uM), release of arachidonic acid (AA), its metabolites, and ATP (IC50 = 4.5 uM) when guinea pig platelets were challenged with a low concentration of thrombin. We propose that PLC-DGL is an important enzymatic pathway for the release of AA in guinea pig platelets.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗

NAD+-dependent ethanol oxidation: redox effects and rate limitation.

Effects of ethanol on interconversion of cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone was studied in isolated hepatocytes. Oxidation and reduction catalyzed by alcohol dehydrogenase were markedly inhibited and stimulated, respectively. The changed ratio between the rates indicated that the ratio of NAD+ to NADH bound to alcohol dehydrogenase decreased several hundred times. This is much more than for the NAD+ system used by, e.g., lactate dehydrogenase, and deuterium from [1,1-2H2] ethanol was incorporated in cyclohexanol much more than in, e.g., lactate. These results indicate that the coenzyme bound to alcohol dehydrogenase is not equilibrated with free coenzyme. Thus, the dissociation of NADH might be rate-limiting for ethanol oxidation. Deuterium transfer from chiral [1-2H] ethanols and [2-2H] glycerol in hepatocytes indicated that cytosolic malate dehydrogenase and lactate dehydrogenase were not completely equilibrated, whereas there was no difference in the utilization of NADH formed at alcohol dehydrogenase and at glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. Fluxes in redox reactions during ethanol oxidation may be too high for equilibration of cytosolic dehydrogenases.

Animals↗

The size of mitral cells is altered when rats are exposed to an odor from their day of birth.

Rats were exposed to a moderate concentration of ethyl acetoacetate, amyl acetate, cyclohexanone or heptanol, for 69 days from postnatal day 1, whilst other rats were exposed to deodorized air, or the normal range of rat colony odors (Controls). The size of approximately 3% of all mitral cells in the olfactory bulb were measured using a computer-assisted method. As in previous studies in which stimulation began at day 14 or later, some regions of the olfactory bulb had cells that were significantly smaller than those of controls, and rats exposed to deodorized air generally had the smallest cells. Unlike in earlier studies, however, some regions of the olfactory bulb had cells that were significantly larger than similar regions of controls. The distribution of these changes appears to be odor-specific and consists of coronal patterns that extend throughout the rostro-caudal extent of the bulb. The different patterns obtained for the 4 odors used in this study provide evidence for a topographic coding of odor quality at the level of the mitral cells.

Acetoacetates↗

Acetone compared to other ketones in modifying the hepatotoxicity of inhaled 1,2-dichlorobenzene in rats and mice.

The ability of acetone and 3 other ketone vapours to influence the hepatotoxicity of inhaled 1,2-dichlorobenzene (DCB) was examined in rats and mice. Methylethylketone, methylisobutylketone or cyclohexanone increased liver cytochrome P-450 content and glutathione-S-transferase (GST) activity, but did not affect serum glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH) activity in rats. Pre-exposure to these ketones enhanced DCB-induced increase in serum GLDH activity (8-63-fold), while the increases in cytochrome P-450 content (33-86%) and GST activity (42-64%) were identical to those resulting from exposure to ketones alone. Each of the 3 levels of exposure to acetone elicited cytochrome P-450 and GST responses comparable with those caused by the other ketones. In spite of that, acetone pre-exposure potentiated (4785 ppm), reduced (10670 ppm) or suppressed (14790 ppm) DCB-induced liver toxicity. In mice, the 3 ketones mentioned above interacted with DCB on centrolobular liver glucose-6-phosphatase (G-6-Pase) while acetone pre-exposure elicited an interactive G-6-Pase response in the mediolobular area alone, suggesting topographic change.

Acetone↗

The production and application of a regenerable filter system for adsorption of some atmospheric contaminants.

In this work, a new filter, used to prevent atmospherical pollution, has been developed. Spherical amorphous shaped silicates (such as KC-Siliperl AF 125 and Aluminium silicate 596 FA) were coated with different materials which were prepared from the hydrolysis-condensation products of organically modified silanes and metal alkoxides. The adsorption capacities of such silicates for different solvents; ethylacetate, toluene, n-hexane and cyclohexanone were investigated. It was found that KC-Siliperl AF 125 coated with IMEO (a commercial silane) adsorbed all the solvents better than Aluminium silicate 596 FA, and ethylacetate was adsorbed more than the other solvents.

Adsorption↗

Effect of temperature on competitive adsorption of the solute and the organic solvent in reversed-phase liquid chromatography.

In analysis of the temperature effect on chromatographic separations the influence of the adsorption of organic solvent on the retention properties of solute is generally not taken into account. In fact, adsorption behavior of solutes is strongly affected by competitive adsorption of organic solvents, which is temperature dependent. In this work changes of adsorption equilibrium of an organic solvent as well as a solute with temperature have been analyzed. Data of the excess adsorption of methanol from aqueous solutions on octadecyl-bonded silica have been acquired at different temperature. Experiments have been performed over a relatively narrow temperature range corresponding to typical chromatographic conditions, i.e., 10-50 degrees C. The competitive adsorption equilibria of model solutes (i.e., two homologous compounds: cyclopentanone and cyclohexanone) have been measured at different temperature and composition of the mobile phase. Temperature alterations to the retention properties were found to result from combined effects of changes in adsorption behavior of the organic solvent and of the solute. The influence of temperature on the separation selectivity has been considered.

Adsorption↗