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. 1977 Oct;61(2):229–235. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1977.tb08409.x

The inhibition of histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells by non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs and its reversal by calcium.

G P Lewis, B J Whittle
PMCID: PMC1667498  PMID: 72577

Abstract

1 The non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs, indomethacin, flufenamate and meclofenamate, inhibited the release of histamine from rat peritoneal mast cells induced by pharmacological or immunological challenge in vitro. 2 Anti-inflammatory steroids had little effect on histamine release from the mast cells. 3 Th inhibition of histamine release by the aspirin-like drugs was not prevented by incubation with glucose, unlike the inhibition of 2,4,dinitrophenol or antimycin-A. This suggests that the non-steroid anti-inflammatory compounds do not act by preventing the energy production from oxidative metabolism, required for histamine release. 4 The inhibition of the calcium ionophore A23187-induced histamine release by the aspirin-like drugs was reversed by an increase in the calcium concentration of the incubation medium. 5 The results suggest that the non-steroid anti-inflammatory compounds inhibit histamine release by actions on calcium influx into the mast cell, or on calcium mobilization or utilization within the mast cell.

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