Sixty percent of the fibroblast strains derived from normal skin, scar, and keloid reached elevated growth plateaus when cultured in the presence of histamine. A pharmacologic level of the antihistamine diphenhydramine hydrochloride was able to suppress the stimulation in all the keloid strains that were histamine-sensitive.
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Topol et al. (1981) studied this question.