[Experimental study of the antiedema activity of antihistamine preparations compared to the dynamics of their concentration in the blood serum].

The time-course of the antiexudative effect of the antihistaminic drugs diphenhydramine, phencarol and suprastin was studied in experimental dextran edema of the rat hind limb after intragastric administration of the drugs in a dose of 50 mg/kg. The data obtained were correlated to the time-course of the blood serum drug concentration measured by high pressure liquid chromatography. The relationship between the pharmacological action of the drugs and the mean maintenance dose was depicted by means of computer.

[Changes in substrate specificity of brain mitochondrial monoamine oxidase].

Mitochondrial monoamine oxidase isolated from bovine brain stem and purified to electrophoretic homogeneity contained 15 SH groups per mole (100000) of protein. The enzyme deaminated tyramine, p-nitro-beta-phenylethylamine, dopamine, 5-hydroxytryptamine, tryptamine but did not deaminate histamine, GABA or spermidine. Oxidation of 9-II SH groups in the MAO by air oxygen was accompanied by appearance of the properties to deaminate histamine or GABA.