Isolated rat livers were perfused with recycling protein free Krebs-Henseleit solution for 80 min. Aminophenazone (0.87 mM, 1.7 mM), 4-methylaminoantipyrine (0.86 mM), 4-aminoantipyrine (1.6 mM), or 4-acetylaminoantipyrine (0.86 m M) was added to the perfusion medium.. 4-Methylaminoantipyrine was the major primary metabolite of aminophenazone detected following perfusion of livers from untreated and phenobarbital pretreated rats. The formation of 4-methylaminoantipyrine and elimination of aminophenazone and 4-methylaminoantipyrine following aminophenazone was faster in pretreated than in untreated livers. Fo~pr~treated rats the clearance rate (ml/min/g liver) of aminophenazone, 4-methylamino-, 4-amino-, and 4-acetylaminoant~pYfl~e was 0.99, 0.52, 0.25 and 0.08, respectively. Formation of 4-amino-and 4-acetylamino-antipyrine and methylarmne did not account for the loss of 4-methylamino-antipyrine.Following 80 min perfusion of pretreated liver only 20 % of the substrate, aminophenazone or 4-methylaminoantipyrine and its metabolites, was recovered as compared to 85 %found in the system with intreated livers.