title: A bizarre receptor mediating stimulatory effect of histamine on cyclic AMP formation in duck pineal gland.
abstract: In agreement with our previous findings in chick pineal, histamine also appeared to be a potent stimulator of cAMP formation in intact duck pineal gland (about ten-fold increase above control at 100 microM), showing an EC50 value of 3-5 microM. The effect of histamine in the duck pineal was mimicked by several histaminergic drugs, with the following order of potency: histamine = 4-methylhistamine > 2-methylhistamine > R-alpha-methylhistamine > amthamine > 2-thiazolylethylamine = immepip > imetit > dimaprit. The effect of 100 microM histamine was unaffected by H1-, H2- and H3-receptor selective antagonists, mepyramine, ranitidine and thioperamide, respectively; yet, two other H2-antagonists, aminopotentidine and tiotidine, reduced the histamine effect by only 40%. Thus, these results, being in line with our previous chick data, give support to a suggestion that histamine may be considered a modulator of the pineal activity, and that the avian pineal may contain a novel or avian-specific histamine receptor modulating cAMP formation, whose pharmacology is different from that typical for H1-, H2-, or H3-type receptor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biogenic Amines, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lódź.
authors.forename: J Z
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Nowak
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sek
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Zawilska
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism*; D004372:Ducks / Q000502:physiology*; D006632:Histamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D017442:Histamine Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D006633:Histamine Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D006634:Histamine H1 Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D006635:Histamine H2 Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D008761:Methylhistamines / Q000494:pharmacology; D010870:Pineal Gland / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D011738:Pyrilamine / Q000494:pharmacology; D011899:Ranitidine / Q000494:pharmacology; D011968:Receptors, Histamine / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D017442:Histamine Agonists; D006633:Histamine Antagonists; D006634:Histamine H1 Antagonists; D006635:Histamine H2 Antagonists; D008761:Methylhistamines; D011968:Receptors, Histamine; C025566:4-methylhistamine; D006632:Histamine; D011899:Ranitidine; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D011738:Pyrilamine