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1 Department of Pathology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 90509; 3 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0666; and 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the National Pituitary Hormone Center, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 90509
The cause of the cycle of urinary alcohol levels (UALs) in rats fed ethanol continually at a fixed rate is unknown. Rats were fed ethanol intragastrically at a constant dose for 2 mo, and daily body temperatures and UALs were recorded. Body temperature cycled inversely to UAL, suggesting that the rate of metabolism could be mechanistically involved in the rate of ethanol elimination during the cycle. To document this, whole body O2 consumption rate was monitored daily during the cycle. The rate of O2 consumption correlated positively with the change in body temperature and negatively with the change in UAL. Since the metabolic rate responds to changes in body temperature, thyroid hormone levels were measured during the UAL cycle. T4 levels correlated positively with the O2 consumption rate and negatively with the UALs. In a second experiment using propylthiouracil treatment, UALs did not cycle and a fall in body temperature failed to stimulate an increase in the rate of ethanol elimination. Consequently, rats died of overdose. Likewise, in a third experiment using rats with severed pituitary stalks, UALs failed to cycle and rats died of overdose. From these observations it was concluded that the UAL cycle depends on an intact hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis response to the ethanol-induced drop in body temperature by increasing the rate of ethanol elimination.
alcoholic liver disease; oxygen consumption rates; body temperature
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