[Change in the histamine and serotonin levels in the external respiratory apparatus in botulinic poisoning in cats].

General botulinic intoxication in cats, accompanied by severe respiratory insufficiency, was characterized by distinct impairments in histamine and serotonin metabolism in external respiratory system. Pronounced increase in content of histamine was observed in impaired muscles and their corresponding regional centers of medulla spinalis, when botulinic intoxication had the local type with unilateral paralysis of diaphragm and intercostal muscles. Content of serotonin was increased in the tissues studied only at the later steps of local botulinic intoxication.