Taurine in Health and Disease

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Possible Relationships between Taurine Derivatives and Products of the Metabolism of Ketimines
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   Chapter 2 The Inhibitory Effects of Taurine on Protein Phosphorylation: Comparison of Various Characteristics of the Taurine-Affected Phosphoproteins Present in Rat Retina, Brain and Heart
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   Chapter 3 Effect of Photolytically Generated Riboflavin Radicals and Oxygen on Hypotaurine Antioxidant Free Radical Scavenging Activity
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   Chapter 4 Taurine Protects against Oxidant-Induced Lung Injury: Possible Mechanism(s) of Action
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   Chapter 5 Sulphur Amino Acids and the Metabolic Response to Cytokines
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   Chapter 6 Expression and Regulation of the Taurine Transporter in Cultured Cell Lines of Human Origin
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   Chapter 7 Dietary Taurine Requirement of Cats is Determined by Microbial Degradation of Taurine in the Gut
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   Chapter 8 Reactivity of Taurine with Aldehydes and its Physiological Role
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    Chapter 9 Hepatic Regulation of Cysteine Utilization for Taurine Synthesis
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    Chapter 10 Immunohistochemical Localization of Taurine-Conjugated Bile Acids in the Liver of Mouse, Rat, Monkey and Human
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    Chapter 11 Effects of Taurine on Microsomal Enzyme Activities Involved in Liver Lipid Metabolism of Wistar Rats
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    Chapter 12 Inhibitors of Anion Exchanger Activity Reduce Sodium Chloride-Dependent Taurine Transport by Brush Border Vesicles
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    Chapter 13 Expression of Taurine Transporter and its Regulation by Diet in Xenopus laevis Oocytes Following Injection of Rat Kidney Cortex mRNA
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    Chapter 14 Regulation of Taurine Transport by External Taurine Concentration and Medium Osmolality in Renal Tubular Cells in Culture
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    Chapter 15 Role of Taurine in the Kidney: Osmoregulatory Taurine Accumulation in Renal Medulla
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    Chapter 16 Taurine and Experimental Kidney Disease
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    Chapter 17 Protecting effect of Taurine against Hypoxic Cell Damage in Renal Tubular Cells Cultured in Different Transplant Preservation Solutions
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    Chapter 18 Mechanisms Underlying Physiological and Pharmacological Actions of Taurine on Myocardial Calcium Transport
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    Chapter 19 Cardioprotective Actions of Taurine against Intracellular and Extracellular Calcium-Induced Effects
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    Chapter 20 Antihypertensive Effect of Taurine on Salt-Induced Hypertension
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    Chapter 21 The Effect of Taurine on Blood Pressure, and Urinary Sodium, Potassium and Calcium Excretion
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    Chapter 22 Dual Effects of Taurine on Membrane Ionic Conductances of Rat Skeletal Muscle Fibers
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    Chapter 23 New Data on the Regulation of Taurine Uptake in Cultured Nervous Cells
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    Chapter 24 Changes in the Localization of Taurine-Like Immunoreactivity during Development and Regeneration in the Rat Brain
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    Chapter 25 Transmitter and Electrical Stimulation of [ 3 H]Taurine Release from Rat Sympathetic Ganglia
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    Chapter 26 Cysteine Sulfinate Decarboxylase in Brain: Identification, Characterization and Immunocytochemical Location in Astrocytes
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    Chapter 27 Relations of Taurine Release and Influx to Cell Volumes in Cerebral Cortical Slices
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    Chapter 28 Taurine Release from Mouse Hippocampal Slices: Effects of Glutamatergic Substances and Hypoxia
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    Chapter 29 Taurine Neurons in Rat Hippocampal Formation are Relatively Inert to Cerebral Ischemia
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    Chapter 30 Calcium and Taurine Interaction in Mammalian Brain Metabolism
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    Chapter 31 Regulation of Protein Kinase C Activity by Taurine and β-Alanine during Excitotoxicity in Cat and Mouse Cerebellar Cultures
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    Chapter 32 Volume Regulation in Cultured Neurons: Pivotal Role of Taurine
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    Chapter 33 Taurine as an Organic Osmolyte in the Intact Brain: Immunocytochemical and Biochemical Studies
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    Chapter 34 Alterations of Ventricular Contractility and Myofibril Loss in Taurine-Deficient Hearts
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    Chapter 35 Developmental Effects of Taurine Depletion on Synaptosomal Phospholipids in the Rat
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    Chapter 36 Taurine Depletion and Synaptosomal Phospholipid Content in Cat Brain
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    Chapter 37 Cell Volume Regulation in Taurine Deficient Cultured Astrocytes
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    Chapter 38 Feline Maternal Taurine Deficiency: Effects on Visual Cortex of the Offspring. A Morphometric and Immunohistochemical Study
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    Chapter 39 Effects of Postnatal Taurine Deprivation on Visual Cortex Development in Rhesus Monkeys through One Year of Age
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    Chapter 40 The Role of Taurine in Mammalian Hearing
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    Chapter 41 The Plasma Concentration and Renal Handling of Taurine in Healthy Children and in Pediatric Patients with Disturbed Sulfur Metabolism
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    Chapter 42 Breast Milk Taurine and its Possible Influence on the Development of Breast Milk Induced Jaundice of the Neonate — A Hypothesis
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    Chapter 43 Taurine in the Newborn and Infant Undergoing Surgery
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    Chapter 44 Taurine and the Lung: Pharmacological Intervention by Aerosol Route
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    Chapter 45 Taurine Levels in Plasma and Platelets in Insulin-Dependent and Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: Correlation with Platelet Aggregation
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    Chapter 46 Long-Term Effect of Taurine in Congestive Heart Failure: Preliminary Report
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    Chapter 47 Neuroactive Amino Acids in Synaptosomes from Focal and Nonfocal Temporal Lobe Tissue of Patients with Intractable Complex Partial Seizures