The Subcellular Distribution of Histamine, Slow‐reacting Substance and 5‐hydroxytryptamine in the Brain of the Rat

Carlini, E. A.; Green, J. P.

doi:10.1111/j.1476-5381.1963.tb01466.x

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“…The shortcomings of methods and the inappropriate use of them are problems that have long beset and beclouded research on histamine and on its metabolism. Work on histamine has confirmed the truism that a method that specifically measures a substance in one biological sample may not be specific when applied to a different biological sample, as observed in some applications of the original fluorometric method for measuring histamine (Carlini and Green, 1963;Lorenz et al, 1972). Analogous problems exist in the radioenzymatic method for measuring histamine (Hegstrand and Hine, 1985;Roberts etal., 1985), e.g., the radioenzymatic method missed a large increase in urinary histamine levels that was clearly revealed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Roberts etal., 1985).…”

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“…The present results do not confirm the high concentrations reported by Waalkes, Coburn & Terry (1959) or the even distribution of histamine in the rabbit brain reported by Shore, Burkhalter & Cohn (1959). The former group employed a spectrophotometric method of estimation; the latter group usd a fluorometric method, the limited specificity of which when applied to brain, has been discussed by Carlini & Green (1963) and Levine, Sato & Sjoerdsma (1965).…”

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Concentration of histamine in different parts of the brain and hypophysis of rabbit: effect of treatment with histidine, certain other amino acids and histamine

Abou

Adam

Stephen

1973

British J Pharmacology

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4. In conscious rabbits, intravenous infusion of histidine in the dose range 62 to 1,500 mg/kg, raised significantly (P<0-01) the concentration of histamine in all regions of the brain examined, the pattern of distribution remaining unchanged. The largest increases occurred in the mid brain (90 to 320%) and in the hypothalamus (50 to 250%); in these areas the higher doses produced higher concentrations. Elsewhere in the brain the concentration rose in response to the lowest dose of histidine, but was not increased when higher doses were given. Concentrations in the anterior lobe of the hypophysis were unaltered. 5. The infusion of histidine, unlike that of amino acid precursors, of the monoamines, produced no obvious disturbance in the animals. 6. The rise in brain histamine after dosage with histidine persisted for several hours, depending on the dose; with 500 mg/kg, the rise was virtually unchanged after 16 hours. 7. Histamine (5 mg/kg by intravenous infusion) raised the concentration of histamine in the hypophysis but not in the brain.8. After the infusion of DOPA, a-methyldopa or 5-hydroxytryptophan, the histamine concentration rose in the mid-brain but not in other parts of the brain.9. These amino acids, when infused singly with histidine, did not interfere with the histidine-induced rise of brain histamine.

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“…Biochemical measurements of histamine and its synthesizing enzyme, histidine decarboxylase, in various regions of intact and lesioned brains suggest that brain contains long axon histamine-containing neurons. Furthermore, although a considerable portion of brain histamine appears to be located in mast cells (4,7,8), its presence in synaptosomal fractions suggests its neuronal location (9)(10)(11)(12); this is supported by the presence in brain structures of adenylate cyclase activity stimulated by histamine (13).…”

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Histamine-containing neurons in the rat hypothalamus.

Panula¹,

Yang²,

Costa³

1984

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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A specific antiserum against histamine was produced in rabbits, and an immunohistochemical study of histamine-containing cells was carried out in rat brain. The antiserum bound histamine in a standard radioimmunoassay and stained mast cells located in various rat and guinea pig tissues. Enterochromaffin-like cells in the stomach and neurons in the posterior hypothalamic area could be detected with this antiserum. The staining was highly specific and was not abolished by preabsorption with histidine, histidine-containing peptides, serotonin, or catecholamines, whereas preabsorption with histamine completely abolished the staining. Immunoglobulins of this antiserum purified by affinity chromatography stained the same cells as did the crude antiserum, whereas the serum fraction, which was not absorbed by histamine-affinity ligand, failed to stain any neuron. Histamine-immunoreactive neuronal cell bodies were found only in the hypothalamic and premammillary areas of colchicine-treated rats. The largest group of cells was seen in the caudal magnocellular nucleus and medially on the dorsal and ventral aspects of the ventral premammillary nucleus. Immunoreactive nerve fibers, but no cell bodies, were detected in other parts of the brain. Histamine-immunoreactive mast cells were found in the median eminence and pituitary gland. The results suggest that histamine-containing neurons are located only in a small area of the posterior hypothalamus, and these cells are probably the source of ascending and descending fibers detected in other brain areas.During the last decade, a number of studies have indicated that histamine may function as a putative neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system (1). In the brain, the highest histamine content is found in hypothalamus (2-5) and in certain areas of the mesencephalon (6). Biochemical measurements of histamine and its synthesizing enzyme, histidine decarboxylase, in various regions of intact and lesioned brains suggest that brain contains long axon histamine-containing neurons. Furthermore, although a considerable portion of brain histamine appears to be located in mast cells (4,7,8), its presence in synaptosomal fractions suggests its neuronal location (9-12); this is supported by the presence in brain structures of adenylate cyclase activity stimulated by histamine (13).The immunocytochemical method that detects serotonin has been useful in revealing serotonin-containing neuronal pathways in the central nervous system (14). Attempts to develop a fluorescence histochemical method for histamine have been made (15-17), but the o-phthalylaldehyde (OPT) method failed to detect histamine-containing neurons in the brain. Wilcox and Seybold (18) reported the presence of histamine-containing neurons in the median eminence, using antibodies against histamine. However, this study detected only a few histamine-containing cells. The present study, in which an antiserum against histamine is used, shows that several groups of histamine-containing neurons are located in ra...

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The Subcellular Distribution of Histamine, Slow‐reacting Substance and 5‐hydroxytryptamine in the Brain of the Rat

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Aspects of histamine metabolism

Aspects of histamine metabolism

Concentration of histamine in different parts of the brain and hypophysis of rabbit: effect of treatment with histidine, certain other amino acids and histamine

Histamine-containing neurons in the rat hypothalamus.

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