Lina Maria Rayo Abella, Hannes Jacob, Max Keller, Lisa Schindler, Steffen Pockes, Sebastian Pitzl, Jan Klimas, Katarina Hadova, Sarah Schneider, Igor B Buchwalow, CongYu Jin, Pertti Panula, Uwe Kirchhefer, Joachim Neumann, Ulrich Gergs
There is controversy whether H1 -histamine receptors increase or decrease contractility in the mammalian heart. Therefore, we have generated mice that overexpress the human H1 -histamine receptor in the heart (H1 -TG). We hypothesized that histamine would either increase or decrease force of contraction and beating rate compared to littermate wild type mice (WT). In H1 -TG mice, we ascertained the presence of H1 -histamine receptors by autoradiography of atrium and ventricle using [3 H]mepyramine. The messenger RNA for human H1 -histamine-receptors was present in cardiac samples from H1 -TG and absent from WT...
March 26, 2024: Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics