Involvement of β-Adrenergic Systems in the Antagonizing Effect of Paeoniflorin on the Scopolamine-Induced Deficit in Radial Maze Performance in Rats
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- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in The Japanese Journal of Pharmacology
- Vol. 62 (1) , 75-79
- https://doi.org/10.1254/jjp.62.75
Abstract
Whether anaphylactic histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells is influenced by betahistine, a histamine H1-receptor agonist/H3-antagonist, and dimaprit, an H2-agonist, was examined. Treatment with dimaprit at 6 and 60 microM for 20 min significantly inhibited the anaphylactic histamine release, whereas betahistine at up to 80 microM under the same conditions did not affect it. Treatment with dimaprit at 6 and 60 microM for 1 to 20 min and for 5 to 20 min, respectively, caused a time-dependent inhibition of the release, but up to 30 min treatment with 8 and 80 microM betahistine had no effect. The decreased histamine release induced by dimaprit was recovered by neither mepyramine nor cimetidine. However, thioperamide, an H3-selective antagonist, dose-dependently restored the diminished release. From these results, the inhibition of anaphylactic histamine release by dimaprit is not produced by the stimulation of H2-receptors, but involves the stimulation of H3-like receptors or H3-subtype receptors, which are distinct from the H3-receptors located in brain, and suggests that the receptor plays an important role in the negative feedback regulation of histamine release.Keywords
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