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More than one hundred years ago, histamine was discovered by Sir Henry Dale with his colleagues through the isolation of histamine from mould ergot. Several experiments were carried out to study its biological activity (Emanuel, 1999). It was found that histamine has a stimulant effect on smooth muscle in the gut and respiratory tract, caused vasodepression and stimulated cardiac contractility. On the latter study, it was demonstrated that histamine provide stimulant effect of the gastric acid secretion from stomach of dogs.

Professor Heinz Schild
Sir James Black
Sir Henry Dale
Professor Jean-Charles Schwartz

Figure 3 From left; Sir Henry Dale, Professor Heinz Schild, Sir James Black & Professor Jean-Charles Schwartz

Adapted from Emanuel (1999).

© 2017 by Amirah Suhaila Mustafa

University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus

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