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THE INHIBITION OF HISTAMINE RELEASE FROM RAT PERITONEAL MAST CELLS BY NON‐STEROID ANTI‐INFLAMMATORY DRUGS AND ITS REVERSAL BY CALCIUM
Author(s) -
LEWIS G.P.,
WHITTLE B.J.R.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
british journal of pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.432
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1476-5381
pISSN - 0007-1188
DOI - 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1977.tb08409.x
Subject(s) - histamine , calcium , pharmacology , mast cell , chemistry , prostaglandin d2 , liberation , endocrinology , prostaglandin , in vitro , immunology , medicine , biochemistry , organic chemistry
1 The non‐steroid anti‐inflammatory drugs, indomethacin, flufenamate and meclofenamate, inhibited the release of histamine from rat peritoneal mast cells induced by pharmacological or immunological challenge in vitro.2 Anti‐inflammatory steroids had little effect on histamine release from the mast cells. 3 Th inhibition of histamine release by the aspirin‐like drugs was not prevented by incubation with glucose, unlike the inhibition of 2,4,dinitrophenol or antimycin‐A. This suggests that the non‐steroid anti‐inflammatory compounds do not act by preventing the energy production from oxidative metabolism, required for histamine release. 4 The inhibition of the calcium ionophore A23187‐induced histamine release by the aspirin‐like drugs was reversed by an increase in the calcium concentration of the incubation medium. 5 The results suggest that the non‐steroid anti‐inflammatory compounds inhibit histamine release by actions on calcium influx into the mast cell, or on calcium mobilization or utilization within the mast cell.