Planta Med 1996; 62(1): 60-61
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-957799
Letter

© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Effects of some Components of the Essential Oil of Chamomile, Chamomilla recutita, on Histamine Release from Rat Mast Cells

Thomas Miller, Ute Wittstock, Ulrike Lindequist, Eberhard Teuscher
  • Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie, Fachrichtung Pharmazie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, F.-L.-Jahn-Straße 15a, D-17489 Greifswald, Germany
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1995

1995

Publication Date:
04 January 2007 (online)

Abstract

The influence of three compounds of the essential oil of Chamomilla recutita (L.) Rauschert on the protamine sulphate-provoked degranulation of mast cells from Lewis-1a rats was investigated. The effect was determined by measuring histamine liberation fluorometrically. Chamazulene and (-)-α-bisabolol had no distinct effects. The en-yne dicycloether partly inhibited the degranulation in concentrations above 10-4 M.

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