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STYRENE 487<br />

rats with phenobarbital (oral dose of 80 mg/kg bw daily for three days) enhanced the<br />

hepatic microsomal metabolism of styrene approximately six-fold. Elovaara et al. (1991)<br />

compared the influence of acetone, phenobarbital and 3-methylcholanthrene on the urinary<br />

metabolites of male Han/Wistar rats exposed to styrene by inhalation (2100 mg/m 3<br />

for 24 h) and found increases of 30–50% in the excretion of phenylglyoxylic acid and<br />

mandelic acid in the rats treated with acetone (1% in drinking-water for one week) but<br />

not in the other groups. Co-administration by intraperitoneal injection of toluene<br />

(217 mg/kg bw) suppressed the metabolism of styrene (228 mg/kg bw) in Wistar rats<br />

(Ikeda et al., 1972). Co-administration of ethanol (2 mM) decreased the uptake and<br />

metabolism of styrene (given as a 28.8-μM solution) in a perfused rat liver system in fed<br />

animals and increased these parameters in fasted animals. This was associated with<br />

increased levels of NADPH due to oxidation of ethanol (Sripaung et al., 1995).<br />

Salmona et al. (1976) compared formation of styrene 7,8-oxide and its further transformation<br />

to styrene glycol by epoxide hydrolase in microsomal preparations from different<br />

tissues from CD rats and found mono-oxygenase and epoxide hydrolase activity in<br />

liver, lung and kidney, but not in heart, spleen and brain, with the highest activities in<br />

male rat liver.<br />

When apparent hepatic V max values for the metabolism of styrene to styrene 7,8oxide<br />

by styrene mono-oxygenase were compared among species, the order was Dunkin<br />

Hartley guinea-pig > New Zealand rabbit > Swiss mouse > Sprague-Dawley rat<br />

(Belvedere et al., 1977). However, the order for the metabolism of styrene 7,8-oxide to<br />

styrene glycol by epoxide hydrolase was rat > rabbit > guinea-pig >mouse, so that the<br />

V max ratios for epoxide hydrolase vs styrene mono-oxygenase were 3.9, 2.4, 1.6 and 1.4<br />

for the rat, rabbit, guinea-pig and mouse, respectively. Watabe et al. (1981) reported that<br />

liver microsomal preparations from male Wistar rats preferentially formed S-styrene<br />

7,8-oxide over R-styrene 7,8-oxide (R- to S-ratio, 0.77). Foureman et al. (1989) examined<br />

the stereoselectivity of styrene 7,8-oxide formation in the livers of male Sprague-<br />

Dawley rats and found an R- to S- ratio of 0.65. This ratio increased to 0.92 in phenobarbital-treated<br />

rats. This R- to S-ratio contrasts with results indicating preferential<br />

formation of R-styrene 7,8-oxide in the liver of CD-1 mice (ratio R/S, 1.2–1.8) (Carlson,<br />

1997a; Hynes et al., 1999) and in pulmonary microsomes from rabbits (ratio of 1.6)<br />

(Harris et al., 1986).<br />

Mendrala et al. (1993) compared the kinetics of styrene and styrene 7,8-oxide<br />

metabolism in rat, mouse and human livers in vitro. K m values for styrene epoxidation by<br />

mono-oxygenase were similar for the three species. The V max values, however, varied<br />

from 13 nmol/min/mg protein for B6C3F 1 mice, 11 nmol/min/mg protein for Fischer 344<br />

rats, 9.3 nmol/min/mg protein for Sprague-Dawley rats to 2.1 nmol/min/mg protein for<br />

humans (average of five donors). V max values for epoxide hydrolase were similar for all<br />

three species (14–15 nmol/min/mg protein).<br />

Nakajima et al. (1994a) compared the rates of styrene metabolism using microsomal<br />

preparations from different sources. At a low substrate concentration (0.085 mM), the<br />

rates of hepatic metabolism decreased from mouse (2.43 nmol/mg protein/min) to rat

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