代谢
在哺乳动物大脑中,组胺被认为仅通过组胺甲基转移酶(HMT)进行代谢,形成远端甲基组胺(t-MH),然后形成远端甲基咪唑乙酸(t-MIAA)。我们之前已经表明,咪唑乙酸(IAA),一种GABA激动剂,以及组胺在外周的代谢物,在大脑中存在,其浓度在HMT被抑制后增加。此外,当向大鼠脑室内注入[3H]组胺时,一部分会转化为IAA,这一过程在HMT被抑制后增加。这些结果表明大脑具有氧化组胺的能力,但没有显示这一途径在生理条件下是否发挥作用。为了解决这个问题,大鼠被连续输注了超过4周的alpha-氟甲基组胺(alpha-FMHis),这是组胺合成酶L-组氨酸脱羧酶的不可逆抑制剂。与对照组(未处理和生理盐水处理的大鼠)相比,处理组大鼠所有区域的大脑组胺、t-MH和t-MIAA水平显著降低。作为对照组的百分比,所有区域的t-MIAA耗尽>t-MH>组胺,且组胺的区域性耗尽与其在大鼠大脑区域的周转率相一致。相比之下,IAA的水平没有变化,与组胺代谢无关的t-MIAA异构体前甲基咪唑乙酸的水平也没有变化。结果表明,在大鼠的大脑中,与外周不同,大多数IAA可能通常不是来自组胺。因为大脑中的组胺在某些条件下可以转化为IAA,直接氧化组胺可能是一种有条件的现象。我们的结果也支持大脑中存在一个非常缓慢的周转组胺池,以及使用慢性alpha-FMHis输注作为研究大脑组胺能系统的模型。
In mammalian brain, histamine is known to be metabolized solely by histamine methyltransferase (HMT), forming tele-methylhistamine (t-MH), then tele-methylimidazoleacetic acid (t-MIAA). We previously showed that imidazoleacetic acid (IAA), a GABA agonist, and histamine's metabolite in the periphery, is present in brain where its concentration increased after inhibition of HMT. Also, when [3H]histamine was given intracerebro-ventricularly to rats, a portion was converted to IAA, a process increased by inhibition of HMT. These results indicated that brain has the capacity to oxidize histamine but did not show whether this pathway is operative under physiological conditions. To address this question, rats were infused for > 4 weeks with alpha-fluoromethylhistidine (alpha-FMHis), an irreversible inhibitor of histamine's synthetic enzyme, L-histidine decarboxylase. Compared with controls (untreated and saline-treated rats), brain levels of histamine, t-MH, and t-MIAA in all regions were markedly reduced in treated rats. As a percentage of controls, depletion of t-MIAA > t-MH > histamine in all regions, and regional depletions of histamine co-responded to its turnover rates in regions of rat brain. In contrast, levels of IAA were unchanged as were levels of pros-methylimidazoleacetic acid, an isomer of t-MIAA unrelated to histamine metabolism. Results suggest that in brains of rats, unlike in the periphery, most IAA may not normally derive from histamine. Because histamine in brain can be converted to IAA under certain conditions, direct oxidation of histamine may be a conditional phenomenon. Our results also support the existence of a very slow turnover pool of brain histamine and use of chronic alpha-FMHis infusion as a model to probe the histaminergic system in brain.
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