These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed


  • Title: Reinforcement effect of histamine on the differentiation of murine myeloblasts and promyelocytes: externalization of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor receptors induced by histamine.
    Author: Tasaka K, Doi M, Nakaya N, Mio M.
    Journal: Mol Pharmacol; 1994 May; 45(5):837-45. PubMed ID: 7514713.
    Abstract:
    Histamine and recombinant granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rG-CSF) stimulated the differentiation of murine myeloblasts and promyelocytes to mature neutrophils. In connection with this, myeloperoxidase activity of these progenitor cells was decreased by either histamine or rG-CSF treatment. After pretreatment with histamine at 1 microM, both differentiation and the decrease in myeloperoxidase activity of myeloblasts and promyelocytes induced by rG-CSF were significantly augmented. Binding assays using 125I-labeled rG-CSF showed that the number of rG-CSF binding sites on the surface of neutrophil progenitor cells increased after histamine treatment. The histamine-induced increase in rG-CSF binding appeared to be definitely through H2 receptors. Furthermore, the increase in rG-CSF binding sites due to histamine treatment seemed to take place in association with the externalization of G-CSF receptors, because 1) the binding increase was observed in the presence of cycloheximide, 2) no concomitant increase in [3H]leucine uptake was elicited, and 3) colchicine and cytochalasin D effectively prevented the increase in rG-CSF binding due to histamine. In neutrophil progenitors, cAMP contents increased very rapidly and significantly after either histamine or rG-CSF treatment. Moreover, dibutyryl-cAMP increased rG-CSF binding to neutrophil progenitor cells in a dose-dependent fashion. However, when progenitor cells were pretreated with protein kinase A inhibitors, the histamine-induced increase in rG-CSF binding was remarkably decreased. This result seems to indicate that the stimulatory effects of histamine on rG-CSF binding to progenitor cells are intimately related to the cAMP-protein kinase A system in neutrophil progenitors. Moreover, c-myc mRNA expression in neutrophil progenitors was markedly reduced by either histamine or rG-CSF treatment. It was concluded that rG-CSF-induced differentiation of murine neutrophil progenitors was augmented by histamine pretreatment mainly due to an increase in rG-CSF receptors on these cells and this increase might be related to the externalization of rG-CSF receptors.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]