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Specificity of hepatic aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibition by calcium carbimide (calcium cyanamide) in the rat. 1983

C W Loomis, and J F Brien

Acute, oral administration of 7.0 mg/kg calcium carbimide (calcium cyanamide) to rats, 2 h before sacrifice, produced complete inhibition of hepatic, low-Km (less than 1 microM acetaldehyde) mitochondrial and cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase enzymes and significantly inhibited high-Km (approximately 1 mM acetaldehyde) mitochondrial, cytosolic, and microsomal aldehyde dehydrogenase isozymes. Calcium carbimide had no effect on several other hepatic enzyme activities including mitochondrial glutamate dehydrogenase and monoamine oxidase, cytosolic alcohol dehydrogenase, microsomal NADPH-cytochrome c reductase, benzo[a]pyrene hydroxylase and aminopyrine N-demethylase activities, and microsomal cytochrome P-450 content. It is concluded that calcium carbimide is a more specific inhibitor of hepatic aldehyde dehydrogenase enzymes than disulfiram.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008099 Liver A large lobed glandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrates that is responsible for detoxification, metabolism, synthesis and storage of various substances. Livers
D008297 Male Males
D011919 Rats, Inbred Strains Genetically identical individuals developed from brother and sister matings which have been carried out for twenty or more generations or by parent x offspring matings carried out with certain restrictions. This also includes animals with a long history of closed colony breeding. August Rats,Inbred Rat Strains,Inbred Strain of Rat,Inbred Strain of Rats,Inbred Strains of Rats,Rat, Inbred Strain,August Rat,Inbred Rat Strain,Inbred Strain Rat,Inbred Strain Rats,Inbred Strains Rat,Inbred Strains Rats,Rat Inbred Strain,Rat Inbred Strains,Rat Strain, Inbred,Rat Strains, Inbred,Rat, August,Rat, Inbred Strains,Rats Inbred Strain,Rats Inbred Strains,Rats, August,Rats, Inbred Strain,Strain Rat, Inbred,Strain Rats, Inbred,Strain, Inbred Rat,Strains, Inbred Rat
D003484 Cyanamide A cyanide compound which has been used as a fertilizer, defoliant and in many manufacturing processes. It often occurs as the calcium salt, sometimes also referred to as cyanamide. The citrated calcium salt is used in the treatment of alcoholism. Calcium Carbimide,Calcium Cyanamide,Citrated Calcium Cyanamide,Abstem,Carbimide,Colme,Cyanamide, Calcium (1:1) Salt,Cyanamide, Calcium (2:1) Salt,Cyanamide, Calcium Salt,Temposil,Calcium Cyanamide, Citrated,Calcium Salt Cyanamide,Carbimide, Calcium,Cyanamide, Calcium,Cyanamide, Citrated Calcium
D003486 Cyanides Inorganic salts of HYDROGEN CYANIDE containing the -CN radical. The concept also includes isocyanides. It is distinguished from NITRILES, which denotes organic compounds containing the -CN radical. Cyanide,Isocyanide,Isocyanides
D004221 Disulfiram A carbamate derivative used as an alcohol deterrent. It is a relatively nontoxic substance when administered alone, but markedly alters the intermediary metabolism of alcohol. When alcohol is ingested after administration of disulfiram, blood acetaldehyde concentrations are increased, followed by flushing, systemic vasodilation, respiratory difficulties, nausea, hypotension, and other symptoms (acetaldehyde syndrome). It acts by inhibiting aldehyde dehydrogenase. Tetraethylthiuram Disulfide,Alcophobin,Antabus,Antabuse,Anticol,Bis(diethylthiocarbamoyl) Disulfide,Dicupral,Esperal,Tetraethylthioperoxydicarbonic Diamide, ((H2N)C(S))2S2,Teturam,Disulfide, Tetraethylthiuram
D006899 Mixed Function Oxygenases Widely distributed enzymes that carry out oxidation-reduction reactions in which one atom of the oxygen molecule is incorporated into the organic substrate; the other oxygen atom is reduced and combined with hydrogen ions to form water. They are also known as monooxygenases or hydroxylases. These reactions require two substrates as reductants for each of the two oxygen atoms. There are different classes of monooxygenases depending on the type of hydrogen-providing cosubstrate (COENZYMES) required in the mixed-function oxidation. Hydroxylase,Hydroxylases,Mixed Function Oxidase,Mixed Function Oxygenase,Monooxygenase,Monooxygenases,Mixed Function Oxidases,Function Oxidase, Mixed,Function Oxygenase, Mixed,Oxidase, Mixed Function,Oxidases, Mixed Function,Oxygenase, Mixed Function,Oxygenases, Mixed Function
D000444 Aldehyde Dehydrogenase An enzyme that oxidizes an aldehyde in the presence of NAD+ and water to an acid and NADH. This enzyme was formerly classified as EC 1.1.1.70. D-Glucuronolactone Dehydrogenase,Aldehyde Dehydrogenase (NAD(+)),Aldehyde Dehydrogenase E1,Aldehyde Dehydrogenase E2,Aldehyde-NAD Oxidoreductase,Aldehyde NAD Oxidoreductase,D Glucuronolactone Dehydrogenase,Dehydrogenase, Aldehyde,Dehydrogenase, D-Glucuronolactone
D000445 Aldehyde Oxidoreductases Oxidoreductases that are specific for ALDEHYDES. Aldehyde Oxidoreductase,Oxidoreductase, Aldehyde,Oxidoreductases, Aldehyde
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia

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