Preliminary studies about the occurrence of histamine in seaweed from Ceará State, Brazil.

Authors

  • José Mourão Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Kelma Pires Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Márcia Sousa Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Francisco Viana Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte
  • Silvana Saker-Sampaio Universidade Federal do Ceará

Keywords:

Detection, HPLC, histamine

Abstract

Histamine is a primary amine formed from microbial decarboxylation of L-histidine. Consumption of food containing high levels of histamine might induce an intoxication known as histaminic poisoning. Histamine occurs in a wide range of land plants, but has been reported in a very limited number of marine algae. In this paper, fifteen marine macroalga species were collected at Guajiru beach, Trairi-CE. The presence of histamine was investigated using RP-HPLC. Standard solution of histamine showed a retention time of 8.24 ± 0.05 min (n = 15). Chromatography of Botryocladia occidentalis and Criptonemia crenulata presented a component with approximately the same retention time as histamine, 8.26 ± 0.03 min and 8.27 ± 0.03 min, respectively. For the other species, chromatograms did not show a component similar to histamine.

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Published

2008-11-17

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 1 (2007)

Section

Fish Engineering

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How to Cite

MOURÃO, José; PIRES, Kelma; SOUSA, Márcia; VIANA, Francisco; SAKER-SAMPAIO, Silvana. Preliminary studies about the occurrence of histamine in seaweed from Ceará State, Brazil. Revista Ciência Agronômica, [S. l.], v. 38, n. 1, 2008. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufc.br/revistacienciaagronomica/article/view/83743. Acesso em: 19 apr. 2026.