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Polychlorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE) Oligomer Pharmacokinetics in Fischer 344 Rats: Development of a Physiologically Based Model1,2

ALLEN VINEGAR*,3, CONNIE S. SECKEL*, DANIEL L. POLLARD*, EDWIN R. KINKEAD*, RORY B. CONOLLY*,4 and MELVIN E. ANDERSEN{dagger},4

*Mantech Environmental Technology Inc. Dayton, Ohio 45431-0009 {dagger}Toxic Hazards Division, Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433

Received April 12, 1991; accepted November 4, 1991

The hydraulic fluid oil polychiorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE) is hepato- and nephrotoxic in the rat. Male Fischer 344 rats were exposed to PCTFE either for a single 6-hr exposure (0.5 or 0.25 mg/liter) or daily 5 days/week, 6 hr/day, for 13 weeks (0.5, 0.25, or 0.01 mg/liter). Blood, tissue, and urinary PCTFE concentrations measured postexposure were used to develop a physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PB-PK) model. The PCTFE hydraulic fluid used was a mixture of trimeric and tetrameric oligomers with minor amounts of other chain lengths. The PB-PK model was designed to describe the behavior, not of individual oligomers, but of total mass for the trimer and tetramer in each tissue. Partition coefficients were estimated using the model to optimize tissue/blood concentration ratios measured at the end of the 13-week exposure. First-order metabolic rate constants for both trimeric (2.0 hr–1) and tetrameric (1.0 hr–1) portions were estimated by optimization against urinary fluoride data assuming release of 0.77 mole fluoride per mole trimer and 0.844 mole fluoride per mole tetramer metabolized. To obtain accurate simulation of pharmacokinetic data it was necessary to hypothesize two fat compartments with diffusion-limited exchange of PCTFE oligomer with the blood. Relative concentrations of trimer and tetramer in venous blood, liver, and fat after a single 6-hr exposure were proportional to inhaled concentrations. Tetramer accumulated preferentially with multiple exposure. Components of PCTFE were metabolized to carboxylic acids with release of fluoride. Due to their persistence tetrameric oligomers appear to be more important than trimeric oligomers as causative agents of PCTFE hepato and nephrotoxicity in the rat.


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