title: Plasma N-methylhistamine concentration as an indicator of histamine release by intravenous d-tubocurarine in humans: preliminary study in five patients by radioimmunoassay kits.
abstract: Histamine disappears rapidly from plasma because of its short half-life. Because a metabolite of histamine, N-methylhistamine, is stable and has a longer half-life, determination of its plasma concentration can be useful in retrospective determination of histamine release. In this study, we measured plasma histamine and N-methylhistamine concentrations after d-tubocurarine (dTc) administration to evaluate the use of plasma N-methylhistamine measurement for confirming histamine release. After the induction of anesthesia, five patients received dTc, 0.8 mg/kg intravenously. A radioimmunoassay kit was used to determine plasma histamine and N-methylhistamine before and 1, 3, 5, and 10 min after administration of dTc. Histamine released by the injection of dTc reached a maximum level at 1 min, but decreased rapidly, whereas N-methylhistamine increased at 1 min and remained increased for at least 10 min. Good correlations were found between histamine concentration at 1 min and N-methylhistamine concentrations at 1, 3, 5, and 10 min, especially r = 0.999 (n = 5) at 10 min. N-Methylhistamine measurement with this kit can ascertain histamine release retrospectively in a semiquantitative manner.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ueda
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukushima
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D005260:Female; D006632:Histamine / Q000097:blood; D006636:Histamine Release / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008761:Methylhistamines / Q000097:blood*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014403:Tubocurarine / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D008761:Methylhistamines; D006632:Histamine; D014403:Tubocurarine; C048140:N-methylhistamine