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1. Four hours after treatment of rats with lindane (60 mg/kg), hepatic GSH content was decreased (22%) and GSSG was increased (20%), while biliary concentration and excretion of both GSH and GSSG and bile flow were diminished. These changes coincide with the onset of hepatic lipid peroxidation. 2. The changes induced by lindane at 4 h disappeared at 6 h after treatment, but liver GSSG content (91%), biliary GSSG excretion (133%) and bile flow (42%) were enhanced at 24 h. 3. The data indicate that lindane treatment elicits marked changes in hepatocyte glutathione status, with a decrease in the GSH/GSSG ratio at early (2-4 h) and late (24 h) periods of poisoning.

1. Lindane (60 mg/kg) administered orally to rats increased liver cytochrome P-450 content and superoxide radical (O2-.) generation 24 h after treatment, while formation of thiobarbituric acid reactants and NADPH/ADP-supported microsomal chemiluminescence were significantly increased 4 h after treatment. 2. Hepatic superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase decreased 6 h after lindane treatment and SOD/O2-. ratio progressively decreased during 4 to 24 h after lindane treatment. 3. Morphological evidence of hepatic cell injury after lindane treatment was seen at all times studied, and appeared to increase with time. 4. Lindane administration results in time-dependent oxidative stress in liver which involves an early component (4-6 h) related to the reductive metabolism of lindane, and a late component (24 h) associated with the induction of cytochrome P-450; the biochemical changes correlated with the observed morphological lesions.