title: Histamine H3 receptors regulate acetylcholine release from the guinea pig ileum myenteric plexus.
abstract: The effect of selective histamine H3-receptor agonists and antagonists on the acetylcholine release from peripheral nerves was evaluated in the guinea pig longitudinal muscle-myenteric plexus preparations, preloaded with (3H)choline. In the presence of H1 and H2 blockade, histamine (10(-7)-10(-4) M) and (R)-alpha-methylhistamine (10(-8)-10(-6) M) inhibited the electrically-evoked acetylcholine release, being (R)-alpha-methylhistamine more active than histamine, but behaving as a partial agonist. The effect of histamine was completely reversed by selective H3-blocking drugs, thioperamide and impromidine, while only submaximal doses of (R)-alpha-methylhistamine were antagonized. Furthermore, thioperamide and impromidine enhanced the electrically-evoked acetylcholine release. On the contrary, the new H3-blocker, HST-7, was found substantially ineffective, both as histamine antagonist and as acetylcholine overflow enhancer. These data suggest that histamine exerts an inhibitory control on the acetylcholine release from intestinal cholinergic nerves through the activation of H3 receptors.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pharmacology, University of Parma, Italy.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Poli
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Coruzzi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bertaccini
mesh_terms: D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D006633:Histamine Antagonists; D007082:Ileum / Q000294:innervation*; D008761:Methylhistamines / Q000494:pharmacology; D009197:Myenteric Plexus / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010880:Piperidines / Q000494:pharmacology; D011968:Receptors, Histamine / Q000502:physiology*; D018100:Receptors, Histamine H3; D014316:Tritium
chemical_list: D006633:Histamine Antagonists; D008761:Methylhistamines; D010880:Piperidines; D011968:Receptors, Histamine; D018100:Receptors, Histamine H3; D014316:Tritium; C052075:thioperamide; D000109:Acetylcholine; C048140:N-methylhistamine