Abstract
The excretion of single intragastric doses of 14C-labelled 3-deoxy-4-sulphohexosulose (DSH) was studied in male CF1 mice and male and female Wistar albino rats. Urine and faeces were collected 6, 12, 24, (36), 48 and 72 hr after administration of 2100 mg [ 14C]DSH/kg body weight (to mice), 1700 mg/kg (to male rats) and 100 and 500 mg/kg (to male and female rats). After 72 hr, plasma and total carcass levels were determined in some experiments. In mice 29% of the administered radioactivity was excreted in the urine, 50% in the faeces and some 13% in cage washings. In rats, faecal excretion varied between 58.5 and 73%. Urinary excretion varied between 16.5 and 31% and was slightly higher in male than in female rats. No radioactivity was detected in expired air of rats, and carcass levels in rats and mice after 72 hr were less than 0.1% of the dose. TLC analysis of urine extracts revealed only unchanged [ 14C]DSH. In similar studies, male rats and mice were given 35S-labelled DSH in a dose of 6500 mg/kg or 10,700 mg/kg, respectively. Urinary activity accounted for 19.5% of the dose in rats and 27.5% in mice by 72 hr and no 35S-labelled sulphate was detectable in the urine. Organ analyses at nine intervals from 0.25 to 24 hr after intragastric administration of 1600 and 1800 mg [ 14C]DSH/kg to male rats and mice, respectively, showed that at all times most of the 14C activity was associated with the gastro-intestinal tract in both species. Maximum tissue levels were 2.16% of the dose in the rat liver 0.5 hr after dosing and 1.57% in the mouse kidney after 0.25 hr. Significant amounts of activity (>0.25% of the dose) occurred transiently also in the pancreas and lungs of both species, in the rat testes and in the mouse bladder. Maximum plasma levels were 0.09% of the dose/ml in rats 0.5 and 1 hr after dosing and 0.34%/ml in mice at 0.25 hr.
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