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  • 1
    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Several preparations of Cremophor El®, several of other non-ionic detergents and several components of Cremophor El were tested for their histamine-releasing capacity in dogs. Lutensol AP 10 and a derivative of 1,2-propylenglycol were ineffective, but showed excellent properties as detergents. Thus the histamine-releasing capacity was not necessarily combined with the tenside effect of the surfactants. Oleic acid found in Tween 80 as well as in Cremophor El seems to be the most effective constituent, but the alcohol seems also to be important for the histamine-releasing capacity. The development of a non-toxic solubilizer for lipophilic drugs seems of considerable clinical interest.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The increasing importance of measuring histamine in many clinical conditions and the variety of currently used techniques enforced us to organize an external quality control study (ring study) on the reliability of histamine measurements in European laboratories. Three plasma quality control samples in duplicate (lyophilized) with different amounts of histamine (0–5 ng/ml), two different aqueous histamine standard samples and one solvent sample were sent to 10 laboratories for analysis of their histamine content. The following methods were used: gas chromatographic-massespectrometric technique (n=2), single isotope assay (n=1), fluorometric-fluoroenzymatic assay (n=3), radioimmunoassay (n=3), HPLC technique (n=2). The study was performed and evaluated according to the approved recommendation (1983) of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC). This first report of the study is concentrated on the imprecision and inaccuracy of the different principal methods and laboratories by comparing two unrelated plasma histamine samples of different analyte concentrations (target values and SD: 4.39±0.51 ng/ml and 0.99±0.17 ng/ml). This study showed a fairly good agreement between most participants. 7/11 results obtained with 4 different methods were accurate and precise in the plasma range of histamine (Youden plot). Results outside the borderlines turned out to be a problem of the analyst rather than the method itself. It is suggested to define reference values for plasma histamine and to establish reference laboratories and methods according to the IFCC-guidelines.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Keywords: Key words: Histamine — Histamine receptors — Inflammation — Neutrophils — Signal transduction
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract. Objective and Design: In order to understand the underlying mechanism of histamine stimulated inflammatory responses, histamine receptor subtypes and signal transduction pathways by which histamine mediates the stimulation of neutrophil adhesion to endothelial cells has been studied in vitro.¶Material: Human neutrophils and human umbilical vein endothelial cells.¶Treatment: Confluent human endothelial cell layer were incubated with histamine (1 mM), H1, H2 or H3 receptor agonists: fluorophenylhistamine (10 μM), amthamine (10 μm), methylhistamine (10 μM), respectively. Ten minutes prior to histamine (1 mM) stimulation H1, H2 or H3 receptor antagonists (dimethindene, 100 μM; famotidine, 100 μM, thioperamid 100 μM, respectively) were added. Histamine stimulated signal transduction pathways were inhibited by adding phospholipase C inhibitor 2-nitro-4-carboxyphenyl N,N-diphenylcarbamat (200 μM), adenylate cyclase inhibitor 9-(2 tetrahydrofuryl)adenine (80 μM), nitric oxide synthase isozymes inhibitor S-ethylisothiourea (1 μM) or guanylate cyclase inhibitor (LY 83583; 10 μM). Neutrophil adhesion was monitored at 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180 and 210 min.¶Methods: Neutrophil adhesion to endothelial cells was quantified by analysing alkaline phosphatase activity.¶Results: Histamine stimulation of endothelial cells resulted in a biphasic time and concentration dependent pattern of neutrophil adhesion. This pattern of neutrophil adhesion was mimicked by stimulation of endothelial cells with H1 or H2 agonists. Stimulation of endothelial cells with an H3 agonist had no effect on neutrophil binding. Inhibition of phospholipase C (PLC), nitric oxide synthase isozymes (NOS) or guanylate cyclase (GC) resulted in a significant decrease of neutrophil binding to histamine or agonist stimulated endothelial cells. An increase of neutrophil binding to unstimulated or to agonist stimulated endothelial cells was observed during inhibition of adenylate cyclase.¶Conclusions: Our results suggest that histamine stimulated neutrophil adhesion is due to H1 and H2 receptor mediated activation of PLC, NOS and GC. Increase of cAMP concentration seems to mediate an inhibitory effect on PMN adhesion to endothelial cells
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    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
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    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Following numerous reports of high histidine decarboxylase (HDC) activity in tumour-bearing animals, the present work was designed to determine the activity of this enzyme in normal and tumour tissues in a series of ten surgical patients with colorectal carcinoma. Significantly increased HDC activity, almost double that of normal tissues, was found in specimens from extirpated human tumours. These results, obtained under reliable sampling and measurement conditions indicated that changes in the enzymic activity of HDC may have a significant role in the development of colorectal tumour cells. Inhibition of the enzyme activity in human cancer subjects may retard or impede tumour growth and perhaps limit the spread of metastases.
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    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The hypothesis of a causal relationship between a progressive and unrestrained increase of tissue histamine formation by activation of an inducible histidine decarboxylase (HDC) and lethality in endotoxic shock (Schayer's ‘induced histamine concept’) was tested in a standardized rat endotoxic shock model. Initial enzyme identification studies in the rat shock liver (8 hrs after endotoxin challenge) clearly demonstrate that the ‘induced’ histidine decarboxylase is an acid (specific) HDC. The succeeding randomized, controlled study with appropriate inhibitors of the enzyme, α-methyl-histidine (competitive inhibitor) and α-fluoromethyl-histidine (irreversible inhibitor) using doses of 2, 20 or 100 mg/kg showedno significant effect on the survival rate of rats in endotoxin shock. The survival rate of the non-treated endotoxin control group (NaCl) was 25%; all methylprednisolone treated rats (50 mg/kg) survived. Thus, the ‘induced’ histamine isnot a predominant factor (necessary or sufficient determinant) for the lethal outcome in rat endotoxic shock. The protective effect of MP isnot predominantly due to the inhibition of the ‘induced’ histidine decarboxylase. The use of HDC-inhibitors as the appropriate instruments for evaluation of the significance of this mechanism is discussed.
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    Der Anaesthesist 43 (1994), S. 786-790 
    ISSN: 1432-055X
    Keywords: Schlüsselwörter: Trauma – Kardiopulmonale Reanimation – Notarztsysteme ; Key words: Trauma – Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – Emergency medical systems
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Abstract. Posttraumatic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is associated with a poor outcome. When evaluating the literature according to the Utstein method, there were only 2 survivors (0.18%) out of 1,135 CPR attempts after trauma (Table 1). Differences in the study populations and levels of prehospital trauma care led us to analyse the results of a physician-staffed prehospital trauma care system in Cologne. Methods. From January 1987 to December 1990, a total of 49,054 emergency calls were registered using a standardised protocol. Among 9,595 trauma-related calls, 636 patients were found to be pulseless on arrival of the emergency team, 412 of these were pronounced dead. CPR was initiated in the remaining 224 patients, who comprise the study population (defined as 100%). All patients who were admitted to a hospital were followed using a second protocol. Results. CPR in the field was successful in 68 (30.4%) patients, who were then admitted to a hospital; 42 of these died within the first 24 h. Four patients (1.8%) could be discharged from hospital alive and were still living 1 year later, 1 with a lasting neurological deficit (Fig. 1). In 156 (69.6%) cases resuscitative attempts were unsuccessful in the field. Conclusions. Even in a physician-staffed prehospital trauma care system, the chance of surviving a post-traumatic cardiac arrest is minimal. Survival has to be regarded as an individual fate; the overall results are discouraging. Even though this study analyses the largest population of posttraumatic CPR ever published, prognostic factors could not be identified due to the few survivors. Nevertheless, the result does not justify general omission of CPR after trauma as: (1) prognostic factors for survival have not been identified thus far; and (2) no significant additional costs arise from posttraumatic CPR.
    Notes: Zusammenfassung. Für die präklinische kardiopulmonale Reanimation nach Trauma werden in der Literatur Überlebensraten zwischen 0% und 1,7% beschrieben. Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die Ergebnisse der Reanimation Schwerverletzter am Beispiel einer Millionenstadt mit einem organisierten Notarztdienst. Vom 01. 01. 1987 bis zum 31. 12. 1990 wurden vom Kölner Rettungsdienst 9595 Verletzte präklinisch behandelt. Von diesen waren 636 bei Ankunft des Notarztes pulslos, in 224 Fällen (definiert als 100%) wurde eine kardiopulmonale Reanimation begonnen. 68 (30,4%) Patienten konnten in ein Krankenhaus eingeliefert werden, vier (1,8%) wurden lebend entlassen. Ein Schwerverletzter mit Herz-Kreislaufstillstand hat eine nur minimale Überlebenschance. Auch bei maximaler präklinischer Therapie unter Einsatz eines Notarztes ist die Überlebensquote enttäuschend. Trotzdem darf nicht grundsätzlich auf eine Reanimation Schwerverletzter verzichtet werden, weil keine Prognosefaktoren zur Identifizierung potentiell Überlebender existieren und weil keine zusätzlichen signifikanten Kosten entstehen.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Histamine release ; Diagnosis ; Volunteers ; Patients ; Medical decision making ; Histaminfreisetzung ; Diagnose ; Probanden ; Patienten ; Medizinische Entscheidungsfindung
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Zusammenfassung In 2 klinischen Studien bei 40 wachen Freiwilligen und 164 orthopädischen Patienten wurde versucht, Histaminfreisetzungsreaktionen zu diagnostizieren, zu definieren und zu klassifizieren. Haemaccel in einer heute klinisch nicht mehr verwendeten Zubereitung [40] wurde als klinischer Histaminfreisetzer verwendet. Das Hauptinteresse galt nicht der extremen, der klassischen anaphylaktischen Reaktion, sondern einer durchschnittlichen Histaminfreisetzung, die in klinischen Untersuchungen der letzten 10 Jahre mit so vielen Arzneimitteln gefunden wurde. Bei den Freiwilligen wurden 600 ng/kg Histamin intravenös verabreicht. Indikatoren für eine systemische anaphylaktoide Reaktion mit der höchsten Inzidenzrate waren Tachykardie, Plasmahistaminspiegel über 1 ng/ml, metallischer Geschmack, Flush, Kopfdruck, feuchte Augen oder Tränen, Hypertension und Kopfschmerzen. Nach Haemaccel-Infusion zeigte keiner der Probanden eine lebensbedrohliche Reaktion, aber 12 eine systemische und 11 eine Hautreaktion, während bei 17 keine Symptome gefunden werden konnten. Indikatoren mit der höchsten Inzidenzrate waren wiederum Plasmahistaminspiegel über 1 ng/ml, Tachykardie, Quaddeln, Hitzegefühl, Enge im Hals, Hypertension, Kopfschmerzen und Tränen. In einer prolektiven Cohortstudie wurden aus 600 orthopädischen Patienten 164 ausgewählt: 3 hatten eine lebensbedrohliche Reaktion, 27 eine systemische und 96 eine Hautreaktion, 38 Patienten zeigten keine Symptome. Indikatoren mit der höchsten Inzidenzrate waren wiederum Tachykardie, Plasmahistaminspiegel über 1 ng/ml, Erytheme und Quaddeln, Husten, Flush, verstopfte Nase und Gesichtsödem. Damit wurden durch die Patientenstudie die Indikatoren für eine systemische Histaminfreisetzungsreaktion in Probanden zu einem großen Teil validiert. So läßt sich eine durchschnittliche Histaminfreisetzungsreaktion als eine systemische anaphylaktoide Reaktion charakterisieren, mit klinischen Symptomen wie Tachykardie und leichte Hypertension, verstreuten Effloreszenzen, respiratorischen Symptomen im Bereich des Kehlkopfs und der Nasenschleimhautund durch pathologische Plasmahistaminspiegel (〉1 ng/ml). Außerdem wurden die Histaminfreisetzungsreaktionen in kutane, systemische und lebensbedrohliche Reaktionen eingeteilt, wobei klinische und operationale Kriterien sowie Plasmahistaminspiegel für die Klassifikation verwendet wurden.
    Notes: Summary In 2 clinical studies in 40 conscious human volunteers and 164 orthopedic patients histamine-release responses were diagnosed, defined and classified. Polygeline (Haemaccel) in its now outdated formulation [40] was chosen as a clinical histamine releaser. The main interest was not concentrated on the extreme, the “classical” anaphylactic response, but on theaverage histamine-release response found in clinical experiments with so many drugs in the last 10 years. In human volunteers 600 ng/kg histamine was i. v. injected. Indicants for a systemic anaphylactoid reaction with the highest incidence ratio were tachycardia, plasma histamine levels 〉1 ng/ml, “metallic taste”, flush, congestion of head, “wet eyes” and tears, hypertension and headache. Following polygeline none of these subjects developed a life-threatening reaction, but 12 showed a systemic response, 11 a cutaneous reaction and 17 were non-responders. Indicants for a systemic anaphylactoid reaction with the highest incidence ratio were plasma histamine levels 〉1 ng/ml, tachycardia, wheals, sensation of heat, narrowness of throat, hypertension, headache and wet eyes or tears. In a prolective, cohort study in the orthopedic patients 3 subjects with life-threatening reactions, 27 with systemic response, 96 with cutaneous reaction and 38 non-responders were included. Indicants with the highest incidence ratio were tachycardia, plasma histamine levels 〉1 ng/ml, erythema and wheals, cough, flush, stuffy nose and facial oedema. With this trial the indicants for diagnosing a systemic histamine release response in volunteers were validated in patients to a large extent. Thus the average histamine-release response was defined by clinical signs such as tachycardia and mild hypertension, scattered hives such as spots of erythema and wheals, respiratory symptoms in the laryngeal and nasal region, such as cough, narrowness in the throat, stuffy nose and sneezingand by pathological plasma histamine levels (〉1 ng/ml). In addition histamine-release responses were differentiated as cutaneous responses, systemic responses and life-threatening responses by clinical and operational criteria and by plasma histamine levels. Using clinical trials and medical decision making procedures the incidence of systemic histamine-release responses in patients higher by two orders of magnitude than in other studies reported hitherto.
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    Journal of molecular medicine 65 (1987), S. 616-616 
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
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