| The metabolic fate of T-2 toxin was determined in two female crossbred swine following the intravascular administration of one millicurie of tritium-labeled T-2 toxin at a nonlethal dose of 0.15 mg/kg body weight. The plasma elimination phase half-life was 90 minutes for total tritium residues. A total of 13.1 and 1.3 percent of the administered dose was found in the gall bladders in addition to 17.9 and 42.5 percent in the urine of the two pigs, S1 and S2, respectively, 4 hours after dosing. Free metabolites, identified by thin-layer chromatography, represented less than 20 and 30 percent of the metabolite residues in bile and urine, respectively, with the parent compound, T-2 toxin, never exceeding 0.25 percent. The major free metabolites were 3'-OH HT-2 and T-2 triol. Glucuronide conjugates represented 63 and 77 percent of the metabolite residues in urine and bile, respectively. The major conjugated metabolites were glucuronides of HT-2, 3'-OH T-2, 3'-OH HT-2 and T-2 toxin. Neosolaniol, 4-deacetyl-neosolaniol and T-2 tetraol were also identified in addition to 3 unknown metabolites.;In the tissues, the greatest amount of radioactivity was located in the gastrointestinal tract (15.5 and 24.1 percent of the dose for the 2 pigs, S1 and S2, respectively). The remaining tissues sampled accounted for approximately 5 percent of the dose for the 2 pigs. Twenty-one metabolites were identified in tissues following reverse phase HPLC radiochromatography. Approximately 55 percent of the extractable radioactivity in the tissues, including the gastrointestinal tract, of both pigs corresponded to T-2 toxin, HT-2, deepoxy HT-2, T-2 triol, deepoxy T-2 triol, 3'-OH T-2, 3'-OH HT-2, T-2 tetraol and deepoxy T-2 tetraol. The major metabolite in tissues, PM-XV, did not correspond to any standard and represented an additional 27 percent of the extractable radioactivity. |
