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The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 44, 269-276, Copyright © 1960 by The Rockefeller University Press

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The Biological Mechanisms of Air Ion Action

II. Negative air ion effects on the concentration and metabolism of 5-hydroxytryptamine in the mammalian respiratory tract



Albert P. Krueger 1, Richard F. Smith 1, and with the technical assistance of Eddie Reed

1 From the Department of Bacteriology and the Naval Biological Laboratory of the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

Negative air ions are shown to decrease 5-hydroxytryptamine concentrations in extirpated strips of rabbit trachea and in the respiratory tracts of living mice. An initial exposure of guinea pigs to (-) air ions causes a transient rise in urinary 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid excretion which is not observed upon subsequent exposures.

These findings are compatible with the hypothesis advanced earlier that (-) air ion effects depend on the ability of (-) ions to accelerate enzymatic oxidation of 5-hydroxytryptamine.

Submitted on May 18, 1960


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