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Influence of age and gender on the levels of histamine metabolites and pros-methylimidazoleacetic acid in human cerebrospinal fluid.

The metabolites of histamine, tele-methylhistamine (t-MH) and tele-methylimidazoleacetic acid (t-MIAA), were measured in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from 47 subjects with neurological disorders and healthy controls. In lumbar CSF, concentrations of these metabolites were significantly correlated. Levels of t-MH, t-MIAA and their sum (which represents virtually all histamine metabolized in brain) were significantly higher in CSF from older subjects and were positively correlated with age. Females had higher levels of histamine metabolites than males. Males had higher levels of pros-methylimidazoleacetic acid (p-MIAA), an isomer of t-MIAA that is not a metabolite of histamine. Levels of p-MIAA increased with age among men. Analysis of covariance indicated that the subjects' health status had little or no effect on age- or sex-related differences in levels of analytes in CSF; sex-related differences were independent of changes attributed to age. These results are in contrast to those of age-related effects on levels of other aminergic transmitter metabolites in CSF and suggest that metabolic activity of histamine in brain may increase with age.[1]

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  1. Influence of age and gender on the levels of histamine metabolites and pros-methylimidazoleacetic acid in human cerebrospinal fluid. Prell, G.D., Khandelwal, J.K., Burns, R.S., LeWitt, P.A., Green, J.P. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics. (1991) [Pubmed]
 
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