MOLECULAR AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF HISTAMINE-RECEPTOR SUBTYPES
MOLECULAR AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF HISTAMINE-RECEPTOR SUBTYPES
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb17489.x
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发表时间:
1995-01-01
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通讯作者:
SCHWARTZ, JC
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作者:
ARRANG, JM;DRUTEL, G;SCHWARTZ, JC
The early history of histamine is largcly associatcd with allcrgy. The major actions of histamine were described at the beginning of this century by Sir Henry Dale and his colleagues after its isolation from ergot extracts. Namely, its potcnt contractile cffccts on smooth muscles and thc capillary dilation it induces, which mimic some initial manifestations of the anaphylactic shock, were identified by these scientists. They also detccted the presence of the aminc in many tissues, but it was another British scientist, Feldberg, who clearly demonstrated that histamine was released from the lung during the anaphylactic response and that it induccd a marked bronchoconstriction.The idea that histamine exerts its various biological effects via interaction with several distinct rcccptor subtypes progrcssively arose mainly with the design of subtype-selective antagonists. It was first realized that the “antihistamines”(now termed HI-receptor antagonists), the first of which were designed by Bovet and Staub,’did not block uniformly all actions of histamine, leaving, for instance, gastric secretion unaffccted. On this basis as well as on thc diffcrcntial action of agonists, Ash and Schild2 clearly postulated the existence of a second receptor subtype. The existence of the H2 receptor was definitively established with the design of burimamide, a selective (non-H1) antagonist, as well as of several relatively selective agonists. 3