Abstract
The rapid development of modern technologies and the functional excellence of new equipment have offered much scope for the production of a whole battery of principally novel or modified assays for histamine determination in tissues, cells and body fluids (Lorenz et al. 1987a). About 10 years ago there were only three satisfactory methods for measurement of plasma histamine (Beaven 1976; Lorenz und Doenicke 1978): the most sophisticated bioassays on the superfused ileum strip (Adam et al. 1957), the fluorometric- fluoroenzymatic assay (Combined method) (Lorenz et al. 1970) and the radioenzymatic double-isotope assay (Beaven et al. 1972). Now we have reliable data from a whole series of assays (this chapter), but there are many more methods for histamine determination the reliability of which has never been sufficiently tested under specific laboratory or field conditions. However, these techniques have been reported in more or less distinguished journals and their authors and sometimes companies compete for consumers in the scientific community like sellers of drugs, using terms in advertisements such as “elegant”, “exact”, “modern”, “high-tech”, “convenient” and “simple”. Even terms like “highly sensitive” and “highly specific” are often used in the descriptions but not substantiated by convincing findings.
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- Control Chart
- Consensus Development
- Plasma Histamine
- External Quality Control
- Consensus Development Conference
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This study was supported by a grant from Zyma GmbH, Munich.
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Lorenz, W. et al. (1991). Munich Consensus Development Conference on Histamine Determination. In: Uvnäs, B. (eds) Histamine and Histamine Antagonists. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, vol 97. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75840-9_10
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