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1 The Wellcome Research Laboratories, Burroughs Wellcome & Co.(U.S.A.) Inc., Tuckahoe, New York
Treatment of immature rats and dogs with phenylbutazone increased several-fold the activity of enzymes in liver microsomes that hydroxylate testosterone and
4-androstene-3,17-dione. Treatment of rats with phenylbutazone or phenobarbital stimulated a minor pathway of corticosteroid metabolism to polar metabolites chromatographically similar to hydroxylated substrate. Administration of the carcinogenic hydrocarbon 3-methylcholanthrene to rats did not stimulate polar metabolite formation but markedly inhibited the microsomal metabolism of corticosteroids to metabolites chromatographically less polar than the substrate.