Use of cultured precision-cut rat lung slices to study the in vitro induction of pulmonary cytochrome P450 forms

1. The aim was to investigate the effects of some cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzyme inducers on CYP1A and CYP2B subfamily forms in cultured precision-cut rat lung slices. 2. Precision-cut lung slices were prepared from male Sprague–Dawley rats and cultured for 24 and/or 48 h in medium containing 0–20 µgml-1 Aroclor 1254 (ARO), 0–50 µM β-naphthoflavone (BNF) and 0–50 µM benzo(a)pyrene (BP). 3. Treatment with ARO, BNF and BP produced significant increases in lung slice whole homogenate 7-ethoxyresorufin 0-deethylase activity. 4. Levels of CYP1A1 apoprotein were markedly increased in lung slice microsomes after treatment for 48 h with either 10 µgml-1 ARO or 5 µM BNF. In contrast, neither ARO nor BNF had any marked effect on levels of CYP2B1/2 apoprotein in 48-h cultured rat lung slice microsomes. 5. Real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction methodology (TaqMan®) was used to quantify lung slice CYPlAl and CYP2B1/2 mRNA levels. Rat lung slice CYP1A1 mRNA levels were increased up to 8.3-fold after treatment for 24h with 2 and 10 µgml-1 ARO, 0.5 and 5 µM BNF, and 20 µM BP. In contrast, treatment with 10 µgml-1 ARO produced only a small 1.6-fold increase in CYP2B1/2 mRNA levels. 6. Precision-cut lung slices are a useful model in vitro system for the assessment of the effects of chemicals on pulmonary CYP forms.

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