Histamine, a naturally occurring substance has been identified, located and traced through its metabolism. It is very widely distributed in the body and there is scarcely any organ which does not contain at least some histamine. Abnormal release of this substance or altered reactivity to histamine has been round to occur in many pathological conditions. However, the great amount of information which has accumulated over the years, has contributed very little in understanding the role, that is the physiological function, if any, of this biological amine. In 1960 KAHLSON suggested that histamine has an important role in tissue growth. He based this theory on experiments performed on rats and round that during embryonal development and in regenerative and reparative growth, the histamine-forming capacity of the tissues involved is greatly increased.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115395 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Constantopoulos, George. |
| Contributors | Kovacs, E. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Health Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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