Inhibitors of histamine methylation in brain promote formation of imidazoleacetic acid, which interacts with GABA receptors.

Abstract:

:In brain, the precursor of imidazoleacetic acid (IAA), a GABAA agonist but a GABAC antagonist, is not known. In the periphery, IAA derives from oxidation of histamine. But in brain, histamine is thought to be metabolized solely by histamine methyltransferase (HMT), forming tele-methylhistamine (t-MH) and tele-methylimidazoleacetic acid (t-MIAA). We showed that [3H]-histamine (intracerebroventricularly) could be converted to IAA in brains of rats, a process increased by inhibition of HMT. This demonstrated that brain can oxidize histamine and suggested that endogenous histamine might also be oxidized if HMT activity were reduced. We examined in rat cerebral cortex, effects of the following HMT inhibitors (mg/kg i.p.): metoprine (10), tacrine (10), velnacrine (10, 30), and physostigmine (1,2). Tacrine was a potent inhibitor (Ki approximately 22 nM). To measure histamine in tissue that contained HMT inhibitors, we developed a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method. After 2 h, all drugs reduced endogenous levels of t-MH and t-MIAA and increased levels of histamine and IAA. Our results show that inhibition of HMT promotes oxidation of histamine in brain, probably by shunting histamine to an alternative metabolic pathway. Formation of IAA provides a novel interaction between histaminergic and GABAergic systems in brain. Accumulation of IAA should be considered when inhibitors of HMT are used to probe brain histamine function.

journal_name

J Neurochem

authors

Prell GD,Morrishow AM,Duoyon E,Lee WS

doi

10.1046/j.1471-4159.1997.68010142.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-01-01 00:00:00

pages

142-51

issue

1

eissn

0022-3042

issn

1471-4159

journal_volume

68

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