Histamine levels in the blood of humans experimental animals under normal conditions and following vaccination
Vasil'eva, O.A.; Beketova, Z.P.; Stavitskaia, N.K.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 7: 53-57
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 899453 Document Number: 122482
The authors present the results of study of the blood histamine content in intact rabbits and in the animals to which commercial vaccines with a different degree of reactogenic property for man were administered. The blood histamine level was also studied in practically healthy individuals and in those vaccinated with inactivated tick-borne encephalitis vaccine. The blood histamine content varied in intact rabbits from 4 to 10 microgram/ml, averaging 6.4 +/- 0.09 microgram/ml. Animal immunization caused elevation of the blood histamine content correlating with the reactogenic properties of the preparations for man: vaccines with low reactogenic properties--inactivated encephalitis and live measles vaccine produced no significant changes in the index under study; as to the typhoid vaccine with sextatoxoid, and smallpox vaccine with marked reactogenic properties--they stimulated significant histaminemia in rabbits. Revaccination of man against tick-borne encephalitis with the inactivated cultural vaccine caused an increase in the blood histamine content.