Effects of oral contraceptive steroids (norethisterone/mestranol) on the activities of hepatic drug-metabolizing enzymes in iron-deficient anemic rats

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Abstract
Either oral contraceptive steroid (norethisterone/mestranol; N/M) treatment or iron-deficiency (Fe(−)) anemia alone caused an increase in NADPH cytochrome c reductase and in three hepatic microsomal mixed-function oxidase activities in female rats. When N/M treatment and the Fe(−) diet are combined, no further change in hepatic enzyme activity is seen compared with that with either treatment alone.