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P-450 Enzyme Induction by 5-Ethyl-5-phenylhydantoin and 5,5-Diethylhydantoin, Analogues of Barbiturate Tumor Promoters Phenobarbital and Barbital, and Promotion of Liver and Thyroid Carcinogenesis Initiated by N-Nitrosodiethylamine in Rats¹

Program Resources, Inc., Frederick Cancer Research Facility, Frederick, Maryland 21701 [B. A. D.], and Laboratory of Comparative Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21701 [J. M. R., R. W. N., R. A. L., J. M. W.]

Male F344/NCr rats, 6 wk old, were fed 500 ppm of phenobarbital (PB) or equimolar doses of either 5-ethyl-5-phenylhydantoin (EPH) or 5,5-diethylhydantoin (EEH) in diet for 2 wk and hepatic cytochrome P-450-mediated alkoxyresorufin O-dealkylase and aminopyrine N-demethylase activities were determined. Both PB and EPH greatly increased P-450-mediated enzyme activities in rat liver while EEH was ineffective. To evaluate the hydantoins as tumor promoters, 5-wk-old male F344 rats were given a single i.p. injection of 75 mg N-nitrosodiethylamine/kg body weight. Beginning 2 wk later, they were placed either on normal diet or diet containing 500 ppm of PB or equimolar doses of EPH or EEH for the remaining experimental period. Control groups received an i.p. injection of saline followed by each of the test diets. Animals were sacrificed at either 52 or 78 wk. PB and EPH significantly enhanced the development of hepatocellular foci and hepatocellular adenomas at 52 wk and hepatocellular carcinomas at 78 wk in N-nitrosodiethylamine-initiated rats. Neither the incidence of hepatocellular neoplasms nor the number and size of hepatocellular foci was significantly increased by EEH. At 78 wk, both PB and EPH enhanced the development of thyroid follicular cell neoplasms in N-nitrosodiethylamine-initiated rats while no such enhancement was observed with EEH. Thus, EPH, a long-acting sedative/anticonvulsant, like the structurally similar PB, promoted hepatocellular and thyroid follicular cell carcinogenesis and induced the PB-inducible form(s) of cytochrome P-450 (P-450_b) in rats. In contrast, EEH unlike barbital failed to promote hepatocellular and thyroid follicular cell carcinogenesis and also failed to induce PB-inducible form(s) of cytochrome P-450 in rats.

¹ Supported in part by the National Cancer Institute under Contract NO1-CO-23910 with Program Resources, Inc.

² To whom requests for reprints should be addressed.

³ Present address: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20707.

Received 10/21/87. Revised 1/29/88. Accepted 2/ 4/88.

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