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AUTHENTIC N-acetylhistamine is degraded by human faeces in vitro and a histamine-like activity concurrently evolves1, so the underlying mechanism for the decay seems to be de-acetylation.
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SJAASTAD, O. Possible in vivo De-acetylation of N-Acetylhistamine in Man. Nature 216, 1111–1112 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2161111a0
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