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PRINCIPLES OF TOXICOLOGY

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Figure 3.5 Diagrammatic rendition of hepatic lobule blood flow.<br />

TABLE 3.2 Drug-Metabolizing Enzyme Activities a in Various Organs<br />

Lung<br />

3.1 SITES <strong>OF</strong> BIOTRANSFORMATION 63<br />

Intestine<br />

Mucosa Liver<br />

Kidney<br />

Cortex Brain<br />

Rabbit<br />

Cytochrome P450 0.4 0.34 1.45 0.33 0.02<br />

UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (p-nitrophenol) b<br />

0.4 — 6.6 2.9<br />

Glutathione S-transferase (DCNB) b<br />

Rat<br />

5.3 — 21.9 7.4<br />

Cytochrome P450 0.09 0.05 0.84 0.12 0.01<br />

Ethoxyresorufin demethylase (P4501A) 0.003 0.001 0.034 0.001<br />

Erythromycin demethylase (P4503A) — 0.12 0.47 0.06<br />

UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (p-nitrophenol) b<br />

0.8 — 4.4 3.3<br />

Glutathione S-transferase (DCNB) b<br />

2.1 — 76.4 3.8<br />

a<br />

All activities are expressed on a per milligram of protein basis (DCNB = 1,2-dichloro 4-nitrobenzene).<br />

b<br />

Litterst CL, Mimnaugh EG, Reagan RL, Gram TE, Drug Metab. Disp. 3: 259 (1975).

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