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The relationship between malignancy and histamine metabolism in the liver and the small intestine has been examined in sarcoma-bearing Wistar rats two weeks after subcutaneous implantation of a transplantable methylcholanthrene sarcoma Sa1828 and on the 3, 7 and 14th days after tumour extirpation. Two weeks after tumour implantation, the histamine level was increased by 100% and 50% in the liver and the small intestine, respectively. On the 3rd day after extirpation of the tumour the level of histamine had returned to the control values and remained unchanged during the next 10 days. Neither of the histamine catabolizing enzymes, diamine oxidase with a putrescine as a substrate or histamine methyltransferase were influenced by the existing tumour or by its extirpation except on the 14th day where a high increase in diamine oxidase activity was found. Some changes in the distribution of histamine metabolites suggest an involvement of an oxidative pathway of histamine catabolism as well as the aldehyde catabolizing enzymes in tumour development.
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Kierska, D., Sasiak, K., Biegański, T. et al. Causal relationship between a tumour growth and the changes in histamine metabolism in tissues of sarcoma-bearing rat. Agents and Actions 20, 314–316 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02074700
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