The inhibitory effect of testosterone on the development of metabolic tolerance to ethanol

Alcohol
G RachaminY Israel

Abstract

We have investigated the mechanism(s) of metabolic tolerance to ethanol in a rat strain (spontaneously hypertensive or SH) in which liver alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) levels are very low due to a marked inhibitory effect of testosterone on ADH. Chronic ethanol administration resulted in marked increases in the rate of ethanol metabolism and in ADH activity (+65 to 90%). Oxygen consumption measured in the perfused livers of the ethanol-fed rats was also elevated (+40%). The administration of 6-n-propyl-2-thiouracil (PTU), which was previously found to reduce hepatic oxygen consumption and to increase ADH activity, resulted in no change in the rate of ethanol metabolism in the ethanol-fed rats and an increase in the sucrose-fed controls, suggesting that increased ADH activity is more important for the development of metabolic tolerance to ethanol, in the male SH rat, than increased oxygen consumption. The activity of the microsomal ethanol-oxidizing system (MEOS) in vitro was induced by chronic ethanol treatment (+95%), but it may only account for a small part (32%) of the increase in ethanol metabolism in vivo. Serum testosterone concentrations were lower in the ethanol-fed rats at peak blood ethanol levels, relative to those fou...Continue Reading

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