H1-receptor-mediated excitation and facilitation of the heat response by histamine in canine visceral polymodal receptors studied in vitro

Author:

Koda H.1,Minagawa M.1,Si-Hong L.1,Mizumura K.1,Kumazawa T.1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Neural Regulation, Nagoya University, Japan.

Abstract

1. We examined excitation and the facilitatory effect on the heat responses induced by histamine in visceral polymodal receptors with the use of the canine testis-spermatic nerve preparation in vitro. 2. The proportion of units that showed excitation (> 10 impulses 1 min after application of histamine was initiated) increased roughly with higher concentrations of histamine: 7% at 1 microM, 26% at 10 microM, 79% at 100 microM, and 61% at 1,000 microM. The discharge rate also increased with the concentration. 3. Histamine (100 and 1,000 microM) responses > 0.5 imp/s were observed only in units with conduction velocities (CVs) of < or = 10 m/s, but not in those with CVs faster than 10 m/s. On average, histamine-induced discharges were significantly greater in units with CVs of < or = 10 m/s at all concentrations > or = 10 microM. Thus units studied in this experiment were empirically divided into slow-CV (< or = m/s) and fast-CV (> 10 m/s) groups. 4. Histamine significantly facilitated the heat responses of the slow-CV group from 10 microM, and also facilitated the fast-CV group from 100 microM. This sensitizing effect was observed irrespective of the precedent histamine-induced excitation. The magnitude of sensitization tended to increase with an increase in histamine concentration. 5. For studying the histamine receptor subtype involved in excitation and facilitation, we used D-chlorpheniramine maleate (5 microM) (an H1 receptor antagonist), famotidine (20 microM) (an H2 receptor antagonist), and thioperamide maleate (20 microM) (an H3 receptor antagonist). The magnitude of histamine-induced excitation of the slow-CV group was significantly suppressed by the H1 receptor antagonist but not by other antagonists. 6. The facilitatory effect of histamine on the heat response was also suppressed by the H1 receptor antagonist in both slow- and fast-CV groups. 7. These results strongly suggested that both excitation and facilitation of the heat response induced by histamine are mediated through the H1 receptor.

Publisher

American Physiological Society

Subject

Physiology,General Neuroscience

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