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“Depletion in compounds acting as cellular antioxidants, such as glutathione and vitamin E, may conceivably increase the vulnerability of an individual to chloramphenicol toxicity, while supplementation with an antioxidant might protect against it.”
Adverse drug reactions and toxicological reviews • 1993 | View Paper
“Primaquine, chloramphenicol and sulfanilamide caused significant concentration-dependent reductions of glutathione levels in G6PD-deficient red cells when compared to normal red cells.”
Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit • 1999 | View Paper
“The glutathione S-transferases of human fetal and neonatal liver catalyse the conjugation of glutathione with chloramphenicol at a low but measurable rate.”
“ Glutathione increased the formation of deschloro-chloramphenicol by 13% and decreased the amount of the irreversibly bound product by 18%, respectively.”