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Toxicokinetics of α-thujone Following Intravenous and Gavage Administration of α-thujone or α- And β-thujone Mixture in Male and Female F344/N Rats and B6C3F1 Mice

Toxicokinetics of α-thujone Following Intravenous and Gavage Administration of α-thujone or α- And β-thujone Mixture in Male and Female F344/N Rats and B6C3F1 Mice

Suramya Waidyanatha, Jerry D Johnson, S Peter Hong, Veronica Godfrey Robinson, Seth Gibbs, Steven W Graves, Michelle J Hooth, Cynthia S Smith

Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2013 Sep 1;271(2):216-28.

PMID: 23669748

Abstract:

Plants containing thujone have widespread use and hence have significant human exposure. α-Thujone caused seizures in rodents following gavage administration. We investigated the toxicokinetics of α-thujone in male and female F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice following intravenous and gavage administration of α-thujone or a mixture of α- and β-thujone (which will be referred to as α,β-thujone). Absorption of α-thujone following gavage administration was rapid without any dose-, species-, sex- or test article-related effect. Absolute bioavailability of α-thujone following administration of α-thujone or α,β-thujone was generally higher in rats than in mice. In rats, females had higher bioavailability than males following administration of either test article although a sex difference was not observed in mice. Cmax and AUC∞ increased greater than proportional to the dose in female rats following administration of α-thujone and in male and female mice following administration of α,β-thujone suggesting possible saturation of elimination kinetics with increasing dose. Dose-adjusted AUC∞ for male and female rats was 5- to 15-fold and 3- to 24-fold higher than mice counterparts following administration of α-thujone and α,β-thujone, respectively (p-value<0.0001 for all comparisons). Following both intravenous and gavage administration, α-thujone was distributed to the brains of rats and mice with females, in general, having higher brain:plasma ratios than males. These data are in support of the observed toxicity of α-thujone and α,β-thujone where females were more sensitive than males of both species to α-thujone-induced neurotoxicity. In general there was no difference in toxicokinetics between test articles when normalized to α-thujone concentration.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP76231760-B	α,β-Thujone		76231-76-0	Price

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