title: Interaction of histamine with adrenergic smooth muscle neurotransmission. I. Effects of histamine on smooth muscle contractions induced by exogenous or by endogenous noradrenaline.
abstract: The effects of histamine on contractions in response to exogenous noradrenaline or to electrical stimulation were studied on two smooth muscle preparations with adrenergic neurotransmission--rat anococcygeal muscle and vas deferens. Histamine (1 X 10(-6)M-1 X 10(-4)M) did not affect significantly the contractions of vas deferens induced by noradrenaline (1 X 10(-8)M-1 X 10(-4)M), but decreased in a concentration-dependent manner the contractile effects of noradrenaline on anococcygeal muscle. The EC50 of noradrenaline on the latter preparation was increased 2.6-16.2 times by histamine but the antagonism was of a noncompetitive type. Histamine exerted a biphasic effect on the smooth muscle contractions in response to square wave electrical stimulation with supramaximal voltage (vas deferens--0.1 Hz, 1 sh or 10 Hz, 20 sh; anococcygeal muscle--5 Hz, 8 sh or 10 Hz 20 sh). The lower histamine concentrations (1 X 10(-12)M-1 X 10(-7)M) slightly potentiated the contractions and the higher concentrations (1 X 10(-6)M-1 X 10(-4)M) markedly inhibited the contractions in response to electrical stimulation. The results obtained are consistent with the hypothesis that the modulatory role of histamine for the adrenergic neurotransmission is mediated via presynaptic inhibitory H2--and postsynaptic excitatory H1--histaminergic receptors.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D006632:Histamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D009119:Muscle Contraction / Q000187:drug effects*; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000502:physiology; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012445:Sacrococcygeal Region; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000187:drug effects*; D014649:Vas Deferens
chemical_list: D006632:Histamine; D009638:Norepinephrine