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. 1986 Mar;372:379–393. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1986.sp016014

Some characteristics of histamine secretion from rat peritoneal mast cells stimulated with nerve growth factor.

F L Pearce, H L Thompson
PMCID: PMC1192768  PMID: 2425086

Abstract

Nerve growth factor (NGF) isolated from mouse submandibular gland or from snake venom produced a dose-dependent release of histamine from isolated rat peritoneal mast cells. The response was almost totally dependent on the presence of extracellular calcium ions and on added phosphatidylserine or its lyso-derivative. At high concentrations, strontium ions could substitute for calcium. The process was non-cytotoxic, relatively slow, pH dependent and blocked by polyclonal antibodies to NGF. Binding of NGF to the mast cell was not dependent on added calcium. The release was unaffected by low molecular weight glucose polymers or specific quaternary ammonium salts and thus differed from that evoked by clinical dextran or polyamines. The release was not inhibited by soluble rat IgE or IgG and was unimpaired in mast cells recovered from specific pathogen free rats. As such it did not appear to be mediated through interaction with cell-fixed antibodies. The process further differed from anaphylactic histamine release in that there was no accompanying change in the intracellular level of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP), the activated state induced by NGF was much more persistent than that evoked by antigen, and there was no cross-desensitization between the two latter stimuli. In total, these data suggest that NGF may induce secretion from rat mast cells by interaction with a specific receptor on the plasma membrane, possibly similar to that present on sensory and sympathetic neurones.

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