Affiliation: | 1.Department of Biology,?bo Akademi University, Biocity,Turku,Finland;2.Department of ORL, HUCH,Helsinki,Finland;3.Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit?t Frankfurt am Main,Institut für Pharmazeutische Chemie,Biozentrum,Germany;4.Institute of Biomedicine/Anatomy,University of Helsinki,Finland |
Abstract: | Background In rat, deafferentation of one labyrinth (unilateral labyrinthectomy) results in a characteristic syndrome of ocular and motor postural disorders (e.g., barrel rotation, circling behavior, and spontaneous nystagmus). Behavioral recovery (e.g., diminished symptoms), encompassing 1 week after unilateral labyrinthectomy, has been termed vestibular compensation. Evidence suggesting that the histamine H3 receptor plays a key role in vestibular compensation comes from studies indicating that betahistine, a histamine-like drug that acts as both a partial histamine H1 receptor agonist and an H3 receptor antagonist, can accelerate the process of vestibular compensation. |