Changes in Membrane Potential on Histamine Release from Mast Cells: Measurement with a Fluorescent Dye
- 31 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Japan Society for Cell Biology in Cell Structure and Function
- Vol. 4 (3), 257-260
- https://doi.org/10.1247/csf.4.257
Abstract
Changes in fluorescence intensity of a thiocarbocyanine dye (diS-C3-(5)) were monitored in rat peritoneal mast cells in the presence of histamine releasers. Compound 48/80, a specific histamine releaser, increased fluorescence intensity which reached a maximum in 3-4 min; thereafter it gradually returned to a steady state. These changes in the fluorescence intensity were dependent upon the ionic environment and the energy state of the mast cells. Histamine release from mast cells induced by compound 48/80 was completed within 10 s. Apparently, compound 48/80-induced histamine release is not directly associated with the change in membrane potential except at the onset.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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