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PubMed1977

Acetaminophen production in man after coadministration of acetanilid and phenacetin. A study with stable isotopes.

A new method for the investigation of interindividual differences in drug metabolism is described. We have studied the metabolism of ring-deuterated acetanilid in man following the coadministration of phenacetin. The principal metabolite of acetanilid-d5 is acetaminophen-d4, and the principal metabolite of phenacetin is acetaminophen-do. Using a gas chromatograph--mass spectrometer (gc-ms) we are able to monitor both the devterion-labeled acetaminophen produced by hydroxylation of acetanilid-d5 and the nonlabeled material produced by oxidative removal of the ethyl group in phenacetin. This system allows us to detect differences in the handling of these drugs by different subjects. nonlabeled material produced by oxidative removal of the ethyl group in phenacetin. This system allows us to detect differences in the handling of these drugs by different subjects.

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PubMed1983

In vivo hydroxylation of 3H-acetanilide--evaluation of a new radiospirometric method in the rat.

The proposed in vivo methodology for the investigation of hydroxylation rates consists of of the i.v. administration of tritiated substrates and the collection of tritiated water (HTO) from exhaled air as a measure of HTO accumulation in body water. Specifically, HTO was assessed in exhaled water after i.v. administration of 3H-acetanilide. Over a wide range the half lives of accumulation of HTO in exhaled water (T50) were almost identical with the half lives of elimination of 3H-acetanilide in blood, evaluated by an inverse isotope dilution method (r = 0.96, N = 18). Average T50 amounted to 29 min in controls, was reduced to 20 min after enzyme induction by phenobarbital or 3-methylcholanthrene, and prolonged to 45, 46 and 66 min after bile duct ligation, portacaval shunt and a single dose of ethanol, respectively. It is concluded that the chosen pharmacokinetic approach corrects for the NIH-shift and the results adequately reflect changes in acetanilide hydroxylation related to enzyme induction or inhibition and to liver pathology.

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PubMed1998

Enthalpy-entropy compensation for the solubility of drugs in solvent mixtures: paracetamol, acetanilide, and nalidixic acid in dioxane-water.

In earlier work, a nonlinear enthalpy-entropy compensation was observed for the solubility of phenacetin in dioxane-water mixtures. This effect had not been earlier reported for the solubility of drugs in solvent mixtures. To gain insight into the compensation effect, the behavior of the apparent thermodynamic magnitudes for the solubility of paracetamol, acetanilide, and nalidixic acid is studied in this work. The solubility of these drugs was measured at several temperatures in dioxane-water mixtures. DSC analysis was performed on the original powders and on the solid phases after equilibration with the solvent mixture. The thermal properties of the solid phases did not show significant changes. The three drugs display a solubility maximum against the cosolvent ratio. The solubility peaks of acetanilide and nalidixic acid shift to a more polar region at the higher temperatures. Nonlinear van't Hoff plots were observed for nalidixic acid whereas acetanilide and paracetamol show linear behavior at the temperature range studied. The apparent enthalpies of solution are endothermic going through a maximum at 50% dioxane. Two different mechanisms, entropy and enthalpy, are suggested to be the driving forces that increase the solubility of the three drugs. Solubility is entropy controlled at the water-rich region (0-50% dioxane) and enthalpy controlled at the dioxane-rich region (50-100% dioxane). The enthalpy-entropy compensation analysis also suggests that two different mechanisms, dependent on cosolvent ratio, are involved in the solubility enhancement of the three drugs. The plots of deltaH versus deltaG are nonlinear, and the slope changes from positive to negative above 50% dioxane. The compensation effect for the thermodynamic magnitudes of transfer from water to the aqueous mixtures can be described by a common empirical nonlinear relationship, with the exception of paracetamol, which follows a separate linear relationship at dioxane ratios above 50%. The results corroborate earlier findings with phenacetin. The similar pattern shown by the drugs studied suggests that the nonlinear enthalpy-entropy compensation effect may be characteristic of the solubility of semipolar drugs in dioxane-water mixtures.

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PubMed2002

Identification of the urinary metabolites of 4-bromoaniline and 4-bromo-[carbonyl-13C]-acetanilide in rat.

1. The urinary excretion of 4-bromoaniline and its [carbonyl-(13)C]-labelled N-acetanilide, together with their corresponding metabolites, have been investigated in the rat following i.p. administration at 50 mg kg(-1). 2. Metabolite profiling was performed by reversed-phase HPLC with UV detection, whilst identification was performed using a combination of enzymic hydrolysis and directly coupled HPLC-NMR-MS analysis. The urinary metabolite profile was quantitatively and qualitatively similar for both compounds with little of either excreted unchanged. 3. The major metabolite present in urine was 2-amino-5-bromophenylsulphate, but, in addition, a number of metabolites with modification of the N-acetyl moiety were identified (from both the [(13)C]-acetanilide or produced following acetylation of the free bromoaniline). 4. For 4-bromoacetanilide, N-deacetylation was a major route of metabolism, but despite the detection of the acetanilide following the administration of the free aniline, there was no evidence of reacetylation (futile deacetylation). 5. Metabolites resulting from the oxidation of the acetyl group included a novel glucuronide of an N-glycolanilide, an unusual N-oxanilic acid and a novel N-acetyl cysteine conjugate.

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PubMed1989

The effect of age and frailty upon acetanilide clearance in man.

Six healthy young subjects (aged 23-32 years), six healthy elderly subjects (over 60 years) and six hospitalized long-stay geriatric subjects over 60 years received single oral doses of acetanilide. Acetanilide clearance was similar in the fit and frail elderly subjects at 26.4 +/- 2.5 and 26.3 +/- 3.6 l/h and significantly lower (p less than 0.05) than in the young subjects at 39.0 +/- 1.9 l/h. Liver volumes, measured by ultrasound, were significantly less in the elderly than in the young subjects, whether expressed in absolute terms or per unit body weight (p less than 0.05). When acetanilide clearance was expressed per unit volume of liver, no change occurred with age or frailty. These results suggest that a reduced liver size may be an important contributor to the reduced elimination of capacity limited drugs in elderly man.

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PubMed1979

Relationships between poloxamer structure and the solubilization of some para-substituted acetanilides.

Saturation solubilities of several para-substituted acetanilides have been measured at 37 degrees C in aqueous solutions of structurally related polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene block copolymers-poloxamers L62, L63, L64, P65 and F68. These poloxamers differ only in the amount of ethylene oxide in the hydrophil. Solubilities increased with increasing poloxamer concentration. As the oxyethylene chain length of the poloxamer increased, then the solubilizing capacity per equivalent of oxyethylene decreased. The moles of acetanilide derivative solubilized per mole of poloxamer increased with poloxamer oxyethylene content in the case of the less hydrophobic acetanilides but was invariant in the more hydrophobic ones. The solubilizing capacities have been discussed in terms of the inter-relationships between the hydrophobic nature of the solubilizate and solubilizer and the site of solubilization on the poloxamer molecule.

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PubMed1979

Biological effectiveness, in goldfish, of some p-substituted acetanilides alone and in the presence of poloxamers.

The death times of goldfish have been measured in aqueous solutions containing different concentrations of p-substituted acetanilides alone or in the presence of poloxamers. Plots of reciprocal death time versus concentration were linear with a positive concentration intercept, the minimum effective concentration (MEC). The MEC values were directly related to the pi value (hydrophobic-lipophilic constant) of the functional group on the acetanilide indicating that activity is directly related to lipophilicity. Slopes of reciprocal death time versus drug concentration were linearly related to pi values but there was no direct dependence. The presence of poloxamers in aqueous acetanilide solutions reduced the goldfish death time. The effect of the poloxamers is believed to be one of rendering the goldfish membrane more permeable to drugs.

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PubMed1977

Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutants resistant to urea inhibition of growth on acetanilide.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa AI 3 was able to grow in medium containing acetanilide (N-phenylacetamide) as a carbon source when NH4+ was the nitrogen source but not when urea was the nitrogen source. AIU mutants isolated from strain AI 3 grew on either medium. Urease levels in bacteria grown in the presence of urea were 10-fold lower when NH4+ or acetanilide was also in the medium, but there were no apparent differences in urease or its synthesis between strain AI 3 and mutant AIU 1N. The first metabolic step in the acetanilide utlization is catalyzed by an amidase. Amidases in several AIU strains showed altered physiochemical properties. Urea inhibited amidase in a time-dependent reaction, but the rates of the inhibitory reaction with amidases from the AIU mutants were slower than with AI 3 amidase. The purified amidase from AIU 1N showed a marked difference in its pH/activity profile from that obtained with purified AI 3 amidase. These observations indicate that the ability of strain AIU 1N and the other mutants to grow on acetanilide/urea medium is associated with a mutation in the amidase structural gene; this was confirmed for strain AIU 1N by transduction.

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PubMed1974

Acetanilide oxidation in phenylbutazone-associated hypoplastic anaemia.

Acetanilide like phenylbutazone is paraoxidized by the liver endoplasmic reticulum as a primary biotransformation step. Both compounds were given at different times to each of 10 healthy volunteer subjects and the plasma disappearances measured. Correlation was shown between plasma clearance values of the two compounds (r = + 0.7067; P < 0.05).Eight patients with hypoplastic anaemia after phenylbutazone therapy were investigated. Plasma clearance values and half lives of acetanilide were measured in this group of patients and compared with those of a group of 30 healthy volunteer controls. There was a significant decrease in clearance (P < 0.01) and lengthening of half lives (P < 0.001 in the patients with phenylbutazone-associated hypoplasia. Five patients with idiopathic aplastic anaemia-that is, without history of antecedent phenylbutazone ingestion-were similarly investigated with acetanilide and there was no significant difference between the results in these patients and those in the control group.It is suggested that relatively poor paraoxidation of phenylbutazone producing high blood concentrations on a given dose may be a factor responsible for the drug-associated hypoplasia even though it does not explain the similar pattern of adverse reactions reported in association with oral administration of the metabolite oxyphenbutazone.

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PubMed1967

Microbial conversion of acetanilide to 2'-hydroxyacetanilide and 4'-hydroxyacetanilide.

Approximately 700 cultures of various types were examined for their ability to hydroxylate acetanilide. The major product formed by unidentified Streptomyces species RJTS-539 was identified as 4'-hydroxyacetanilide (N-acetyl-p-aminophenol). This culture gave a peak yield of 405 mg per liter from 1,000 mg of acetanilide per liter. Considerably lower yields of 4'-hydroxyacetanilide were isolated from S. cinnamoneus NRRLB-1285. The major conversion product of acetanilide formed by Amanita muscaria F-6 was identified as 2'-hydroxyacetanilide, with a peak yield of 433 mg per liter from 1,000 mg per liter of substrate. A small amount of 4'-hydroxyacetanilide was also formed. Six other Streptomyces cultures formed small amounts of one or two products identical or similar to 2'-hydroxyacetanilide or 4'-hydroxyacetanilide as determined by thin-layer chromatography and ultraviolet spectra.

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PubMed1976

A method for the estimation of acetanilide, paracetamol and phenacetin in plasma and urine using mass fragmentography.

Phenacetin, paracetamol and acetanilide can be determined in a plasma or urine sample by the use of deuterium labelled analogues. These are produced by reaction of hexadeuterioacetic anhydride with the appropriate aromatic amine. The -NHCOCD3 group is stable to hydrogen exchange below pH 8. The internal standard is added to the plasma or urine after enzymatic hydrolysis of the paracetamol conjugates and an ethyl acetate extract at pH 5 is evaporated under nitrogen and the residue derivatized with N,O-bis-(trimethylsilyl)-acetamide. An aliquot of this solution is injected into a g.c.m.s. system, and one ion characteristic of the material under study and the ion from the deuterium analogue (3 mass units greater) are monitored using a voltage switching technique. In the case of phenacetin, for example, ions at 251 and 254 are monitored. Calibration curves relating different weight ratios of the hydrogen and deuterium compounds to their respective signals from the gas chromatography mass spectrometer are used to calculate the amount of a compound in a particular sample. These methods have been developed to study the oxidation of acetanilide to paracetamol and the de-ethylation of phenacetin to paracetamol. Preliminary results from experiments with phenacetin will be discussed.

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PubMed1980

Adaptation to phenylacetamide as a growth substrate by an acetanilide-utilizing mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Mutants able to utilize phenylacetamide as sole nitrogen source were isolated from the acetanilide (N-phenylacetamide) - utilizing Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutant strain A13 and from its parent strain L 10. Growth properties of the mutants (Ph strains) on amide media and the physicochemical properties of their amidases in cell free extracts indicated that their phenylacetamidase activities were attributable to alterations in their amidases. Differences in amide hydrolase specificities between the AI3- and the L 10-Ph mutants were observed. The AI3 group had a high level of activity towards 4-nitrophenylacetamide, activity towards phenylacetyl-4-nitroaniline but, unlike strain AI3, no activity towards acetyl-4-nitroaniline; the L 10 group had a low activity towards 4-nitrophenylacetamide, no activity towards phenylacetyl-4-nitroaniline but retained the low level of activity towards acetyl-4-nitroaniline exhibited by strain L 10. Confirmation of the association between these altered specificities and alterations in amidases was obtained from analysis of the properties of phenylacetamidases purified from an AI3-Ph mutant (pH 5) and an L 10-Ph mutant (Ph14). The original mutation in the amidase gene of strain AI3 appeared responsible for the differences between the two groups of Ph mutants and the binding interactions with acetanilide that it determined were eliminated in AI3-Ph mutants.

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A novel isocratic HPLC method to separate and quantify acetanilide and its hydroxy aromatic derivatives: 2-, 3- and 4-hydroxyacetanilide (paracetamol or acetaminophen).

Reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography on a microBondapak C-18 Column has been used to separate and quantify acetanilide and its aromatic monohydroxy derivatives in the 2-, 3- and 4- positions. Separation was achieved within 22 min by using an isocratic mixture of 2-propanol: methanol: water, 8:18:74 (v/v). This method compares very favourably with other HPLC techniques already reported to separate acetanilide from the monohydroxy aromatic derivatives.

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PubMed1983

Differential metabolism of acetanilide versus ethoxycoumarin and benzo[a]pyrene by two 3-methylcholanthrene-inducible forms of rat liver cytochrome P-450.

The present study compares the catalytic activities of two 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC) inducible forms of cytochrome P-450. These isozymes (P-448HCB and P-448MC) were isolated from liver microsomes of rats treated with 3,4,5,3',4',5'-hexachlorobiphenyl (HCB) and 3-MC, respectively. Catalytic activities of the isozymes were compared in a reconstituted system and by antibody inhibition studies in microsomes. In a reconstituted system, P-448HCB had very little catalytic activity toward benzo[a]pyrene or ethoxycoumarin (substrates metabolized preferentially by P-448MC). In contrast, both isozymes had high turnover numbers for aniline and acetanilide. However, catalytic activities of the purified isozymes were affected dramatically by Emulgen 911, a nonionic detergent. Since nonionic detergents used in the purification of P-450 isozymes cannot be completely removed after purification, residual amounts of detergent probably affect turnover numbers in a reconstituted system. Therefore, specific antibodies to cytochromes P-448MC and P-448HCB were used to examine the contribution of these isozymes to microsomal metabolism. Antibody inhibition studies confirmed that the majority of benzo[a]pyrene and ethoxycoumarin metabolism in 3-MC-induced microsomes was catalyzed by cytochrome P-448MC. In contrast, P-448HCB accounted for the majority of the acetanilide hydroxylase activity in 3-MC- and HCB-induced microsomes. Neither isozyme contributed appreciably to metabolism of these substrates in control microsomes.

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PubMed1998

Biodegradation of the acetanilide herbicides alachlor, metolachlor, and propachlor.

Alachlor, metolachlor, and propachlor are detoxified in biological systems by the formation of glutathione-acetanilide conjugates. This conjugation is mediated by glutathione-S-transferase, which is present in microorganisms, plants, and mammals. Other organic sulfides and inorganic sulfide also react through a nucleophilic attack on the 2-chloro group of acetanilide herbicides, but the products are only partially characterized. Sorption in soils and sediments is an important factor controlling the migration and bioavailability of these herbicides, while microbial degradation is the most important factor in determining their overall fate in the environment. The biodegradation of alachlor and metolachlor is proposed to be only partial and primarily cometabolic, and the ring cleavage seems to be slow or insignificant. Propachlor biodegradation has been reported to proceed to substantial (> 50%) mineralization of the ring structure. Reductive dechlorination may be one of the initial breakdown mechanisms under anaerobic conditions. Aerobic and anaerobic transformation products vary in their polarity and therefore in soil binding coefficient. A catabolic pathway for chloroacetanilide herbicides has not been presented in the literature because of the lack of mineralization data under defined cultural conditions.

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PubMed1978

Benzo(a)pyrene metabolism and plasma elimination rates of phenacetin, acetanilide and theophylline in man.

The plasma elimination rates of phenacetin, acetanilide and theophylline have been determined in 32 healthy subjects in an effort to find drugs resembling in their metabolism the carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene. The plasma half-lives and metabolic clearance rates of the three drugs were correlated with the inducibilities of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) in mitogen-stimulated lymphocytes and the plasma half-lives and metabolic clearance rates of antipyrine determined in previous studies. Statistically significant correlations were found between the half-lives and metabolic clearance rates of phenacetin, acetanilide and theophylline and the AHH ratios except for the metabolic clearance rates of phenacetin which did not correlate. The correlations of the three drugs with the half-lives and metabolic clearance rates of antipyrine were equally good. Of all the drugs tested thus far for similarity in metabolism to benzo(a)pyrene, antipyrine showed the best association followed closely by theophylline.

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PubMed1994

Comparative metabolism and elimination of acetanilide compounds by rat.

1. 14C-labelled propachlor, alachlor, butachlor, metolachlor, methoxypropachlor and some of their mercapturic acid pathway metabolites (MAP) were given to rat either by gavage or by perfusion into a renal artery. MAP metabolites were isolated from bile and urine. 2. Rat gavaged with propachlor and methoxypropachlor eliminated 14C mostly in urine, whereas rat gavaged with alachlor, butachlor and metolachlor eliminated 14C about equally divided between urine and faeces. When bile ducts were cannulated, the gavaged rat eliminated most of the 14C in bile for all compounds. The amount of 14C in bile from the propachlor-gavaged rat was less than that for the other acetanilides, with the difference being in the urine. 3. The mercapturic acid metabolites 2-methylsulphinyl-N-(1-methylhydroxyethyl)-N-phenylacetam ide and 2-methylsulphinyl-N-(1-methylmethoxyethyl)-N-phenylacetam ide were isolated from the urine and bile of the methoxypropachlor-gavaged rat. 4. Bile was the major route for 14C elimination when MAP metabolites of alachlor, butachlor and metolachlor were perfused into a renal artery. Urine was the major route for 14C elimination when MAP metabolites of propachlor and methoxypropachlor were perfused. Mercapturic acid conjugates were major metabolites in bile and urine when MAP metabolites were perfused. 5. We conclude that alkyl groups on the phenyl portion of the acetanilide causes biliary elimination to be favoured over urinary elimination.

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PubMed1985

Comparison of aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase and acetanilide 4-hydroxylase induction by polycyclic aromatic compounds in human and mouse cell lines.

The human MCF-7 and the mouse Hepa-1 cell culture lines were compared for aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase and acetanilide 4-hydroxylase inducibility by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and benzo[a]anthracene (BA) and TCDD- and BA-specific binding in the cytosol and nucleus. The effective concentration of BA in the growth medium required to induce either enzyme to 50% of its maximally inducible activity (EC50) was the same (5-11 microM) in both MCF-7 and Hepa-1 cells. On the other hand, the EC50 for TCDD in MCF-7 cells (5-25 nM) was more than 40-fold greater than that in Hepa-1 cells (0.4 to 0.6 nM). P1-450- and P3-450-specific mouse cDNA probes were used to quantitate mRNA induction in the Hepa-1 cell line. P1-450 mRNA was induced markedly by TCDD and benzo[a] anthracene, whereas P3-450 mRNA was induced negligibly. A P1-450-specific human cDNA probe was used to quantitate P1-450 mRNA induction in the MCF-7 cell line. Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase inducibility by TCDD or BA always paralleled P1-450 mRNA inducibility in either the mouse or human line. Although the cytosolic Ah receptor in Hepa-1 cells was easily detected by sucrose density gradient centrifugation, gel permeation chromatography, and anion-exchange high-performance liquid chromatography, the cytosolic receptor cannot be detected in MCF-7 cells. Following in vivo exposure of cultures to radiolabeled TCDD, the intranuclear concentration of inducer-receptor complex was at least fifty times greater in Hepa-1 than MCF-7 cultures. The complete lack of measurable cytosolic receptor and almost totally absent inducer-receptor complex in the nucleus of MCF-7 cells was, therefore, out of proportion to its capacity for aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase and acetanilide 4-hydroxylase inducibility. This MCF-7 line should provide an interesting model for a better understanding of the mechanisms of drug-metabolizing enzyme induction by polycyclic aromatic compounds, including the Ah receptor-mediated mechanism.

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