Antagonism by some antihistamines of the amino acid-evoked responses recorded from the lobster muscle fibre and the frog spinal cord

1 The effects of some antihistamines on the lobster muscle fibre and the frog spinal cord were investigated using intracellular and extracellular recordings, respectively. 2. On lobster muscle, histamine H1-blockers reversibly antagonized responses to bath-applied glutamate, aspartate and quisqualate but not responses to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). Iontophoretic glutamate potentials were also reduced. Histamine (up to 1 mM) had no effect on this preparation. 3 The H1-antagonists produced a small increase in muscle membrane conductance and a slight hyperpolarization. These effects were largely unchanged in a low C1- bathing solution. Procaine (1 mM) decreased membrane conductance and did not affect responses to GABA or glutamate. 4 The H2-antagonist burimamide blocked both glutamate and GABA-evoked responses on the lobster muscle without affecting resting potential or conductance. 5 In the frog cord, bath-applied histamine produced ventral root depolarizations and dorsal root hyperpolarizations (sometimes biphasic responses). These effects were reduced by tetrodotoxin (TTX) but not by antazoline (H1-blocker) or burimamide; the latter reversibly antagonized responses to both glutamate and GABA on TTX-treated cords while antazoline was ineffective. 6 It is suggested that antihistamines can act as non-specific amino acid antagonists by interacting at the level of the receptor-coupled ionophores.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1976

Erschienen:

1976

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:58

Enthalten in:

British journal of pharmacology - 58(1976), 4 vom: 05. Dez., Seite 583-92

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Constanti, A [VerfasserIn]
Nistri, A [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

56-12-2
Amino Acids
Chlorides
Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists
Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
Histamine H1 Antagonists
Journal Article

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Date Completed 24.02.1977

Date Revised 09.05.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM000126217