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Hepatocellular damage has been reported as a consequence of amphetamine intake for which little is known about the respective biological mechanisms involved. To give a better insight of cellular d-amphetamine effects, the present study was performed to evaluate d-amphetamine effects on glutathione homeostasis, in vitro, using freshly isolated rat hepatocytes. Cell viability and lipid peroxidation were also evaluated. Incubation of freshly isolated rat hepatocytes with d-amphetamine (0.08, 0.20, 0.40, and 2.00 mM) induced a concentration dependent glutathione depletion which was observed at all times (1, 2, and 3 h of incubation). After 3 h of incubation, cellular GSH decreased to 85%, 78%, 71% and 47% of control levels for the referred concentrations, respectively. At the third hour of incubation, GSSG levels were only slightly increased for the three higher concentrations of d-amphetamine. The mass spectral study of the methanolic supernatants obtained from hepatocytes incubated with all d-amphetamine concentrations revealed the presence of the p-hydroxyamphetamine glutathione adduct (glutathion-S-yl)-p-hydroxyamphetamine. Pretreatment of hepatocytes with the P450 inhibitors metyrapone (1 mM) and iprindole (10 microM) significantly prevented the glutathione depletion induced by d-amphetamine. This inhibition was more effective for iprindole than for metyrapone. Incubation of isolated hepatocytes with p-hydroxyamphetamine (0.10 mM) for 3 h did not result in any modification of cell viability or GSH or GSSG levels. Also, in the mass spectrum study performed on these samples, the characteristic adduct obtained for d-amphetamine incubations was not detected. The above data suggest that the observed glutathione depletion induced by d-amphetamine is at least in part due to the conversion of d-amphetamine into (glutathion-S-yl)-p-hydroxyamphetamine and that P450 2D seems to have an important role in this metabolism. In spite of the results obtained, showing glutathione homeostasis alterations, incubation of freshly isolated rat hepatocytes with d-amphetamine did not result in any modification of cell viability or lipid redox status.
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