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IT has been shown1 that quartz dust is capable of participating in a number of oxidative and hydroxylative reactions. The present communication reports the production of histamine, from the interaction of quartz dust with histidine, and the chromatographic isolation of additional products of this reaction, namely, imidazole–carboxylic acids from the lungs of guinea pigs treated with quartz dust.
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MARASAS, L. Formation of Histamine and Histamine-like Substances from Histidine by Quartz Dust. Nature 192, 872–873 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/192872a0
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