“…There is enough evidence to suggest that phenobarbitone enhances the rate of drug metabolism, particularly that mediated by the cytochrome P-450 system, in vivo (for a review, see Remmer, 1972), and for this to occur it seems reasonable to suggest that phenobarbitone increasesthe liver NADPH concentration. An increase ofabout 2.5-fold in the liver nucleotide concentration has, in fact, been observed (McIntosh & Topham, 1972) after 14 days of supplying phenobarbitone (0.2 %Y, w/w) in the rat's diet. It has also been shown, by histochemical methods, that the so-called type 1 hydrogen representing NADPH used in microsomal reactions (Altman, 1971), and which is 2.5 times as great in the centrilobular hepatocytes as in the peripheral cells, is increased 4 days after phenobarbitone administration in drinking water (1 mg/ml) to 2.5 times the values found in the corresponding hepatocytes of control rats (Butcher, 1971).…”