title: Altered response to histamine in brain tumor vessels: the selective increase of regional cerebral blood flow in transplanted rat brain tumor.
abstract: The authors studied the effect of intracarotid administration of histamine on the regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in transplanted rat C6 glioma by the hydrogen clearance method. Histamine infusion at doses of 1 and 10 micrograms/kg/min produced an increase of rCBF in the tumor (24.6% +/- 16.4%, p < 0.002, and 37.6% +/- 18.2%, p < 0.0001, respectively) and also in brain surrounding the tumor (26.8% +/- 16.2%, p < 0.002, and 34.9% +/- 9.2%, p < 0.0001, respectively) without any significant changes in the ipsilateral hemisphere. Intravenous administration of pyrilamine (H1 antagonist) and cimetidine (H2 antagonist) reduced blood flow responses to histamine; cimetidine was a more effective blocking agent than pyrilamine. Intracarotid infusion of histamine (1 and 10 micrograms/kg/min) with intravenous injection of Evans blue dye disclosed the selective extravasation of dye in the tumor and the brain surrounding the tumor. These results indicated that brain tumor vessels could respond to histamine differently than normal brain capillaries. The mechanism of selective response to histamine could be explained either by increased permeability or by altered characteristics of histamine receptors in the tumor vessels.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Kyushu University, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nomura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikezaki
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Natori
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fukui
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D001812:Blood-Brain Barrier / Q000187:drug effects; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002199:Capillary Permeability; D002536:Cerebral Arteries / Q000187:drug effects / Q000503:physiopathology; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation / Q000187:drug effects*; D002927:Cimetidine / Q000494:pharmacology; D005910:Glioma / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006632:Histamine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007261:Infusions, Intra-Arterial; D008297:Male; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D011738:Pyrilamine / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
chemical_list: D002927:Cimetidine; D006632:Histamine; D011738:Pyrilamine