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Fragments of synovial membranes from three patients with rheumatoid arthritis were incubated in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM). Histamine was released into the medium at rates up to 649.3 ng/g synovium/day. To investigate whether histamine in synovial fluid may have more than a vasoactive role, cells cultured from human trabecular bone adjacent to a rheumatoid joint and human adherent rheumatoid synovial cells were incubated with different concentrations of histamine for 5 min. Histamine increased the intracellular content of cyclic AMP up to three fold in a dose-related manner but had no effect on synovial cells. This offers preliminary evidence that cells grown from human trabecular bone have histamine receptors.
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Crisp, A.J. Studies of histamine in the rheumatoid joint. Rheumatol Int 4, 125–128 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00541181
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