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Cholesterol ozonation products as biomarkers for ozone exposure in rats
W A Pryor1, K Wang, E Bermúdez
1Biodynamics Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803-1800.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|October 30, 1992
Abstract:
Cholesterol, 1, which is present in both the lung lining fluid and cell membranes of lung tissue, reacts with ozone in aqueous systems to give 3 beta-hydroxy-5-oxo-5,6-secocholestan-6-al (2) as the major product. Reaction of 2 with 2,4-dinitrophenyl hydrazine (DNPH) in aqueous solutions, liposomes or lung extracts affords the anti and syn DNPH derivatives of 2 (3b and 3c) and of the rearrangement product 3,5-dihydroxy-B-norcholestane-6-carboxaldehyde (3a). These derivatives also are detected in lung tissue extracts from rats exposed to 1.3 ppm ozone for 12 hr.