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. 1992 Oct;107(2):528–531. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1992.tb12778.x

Effect of histamine and histamine analogues on human isolated myometrial strips.

M I Martínez-Mir 1, L Estañ 1, F J Morales-Olivas 1, E Rubio 1
PMCID: PMC1907891  PMID: 1358393

Abstract

1. The effect of histamine and histamine H1- and H2-receptor agonists on isolated myometrium strips of premenopausal women has been examined. The effect of acetylcholine was also determined. 2. Histamine, 2-pyridylethylamine, 4-methylhistamine and acetylcholine, but not dimaprit, produced a concentration-related contractile response in human isolated myometrial strips. Histamine also produced a further contraction in human isolated myometrial strips precontracted with KCl (55 mM). 3. The contractile response to histamine was antagonized by the histamine H1-receptor antagonist, clemizole (0.1 microM) but was potentiated by the histamine H2-receptor antagonist, ranitidine (10 microM). Clemizole (0.1 nM to 10 nM) competitively antagonized the contractile effect of 2-pyridylethylamine (- log KB = 10.5 +/- 0.5). The concentration-response curve for acetylcholine was displaced to the right by atropine 0.1 microM. 4. Atropine (0.1 microM), propranolol (0.1 microM), prazosin (0.1 microM) and indomethacin (1 microM) failed to modify the contractile response to histamine. 5. In human isolated myometrial strips precontracted with KCl (55 mM), clemizole at 1 microM completely abolished the contractile response to histamine and revealed a concentration-dependent relaxation. Dimaprit alone and 4-methylhistamine (in the presence of clemizole), produced concentration-related relaxation with a magnitude similar to that in response to histamine. The relaxant response to dimaprit was antagonized by ranitidine. 6. It is concluded that human isolated uterine strips possess histamine H1- and H2-receptors: the former mediating contraction and the latter relaxation. The predominant response to histamine in this tissue is contraction.

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