Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Review: Taurine Deficiency and the Cat
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   Chapter 2 Taurine Synthesis in Cat and Mouse in Vivo and in Vitro
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   Chapter 3 Amino Acid Interaction with Taurine Metabolism in Cats
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   Chapter 4 The Effect of Dietary Supplementation with Cysteic Acid on the Plasma Taurine Concentration of Cats Maintained on a Taurine-Restricted Diet
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   Chapter 5 The Metabolic Basis for the Taurine Requirement of Cats
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   Chapter 6 Intestinal Taurine and the Enterohepatic Circulation of Taurocholic Acid in the Cat
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   Chapter 7 Urinary Excretion of Taurine as a Function of Taurine Intake: Potential for Estimating Taurine Bioavailability in the Adult Cat
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   Chapter 8 Dilated cardiomyopathy associated with taurine deficiency in the domestic cat: relationship to diet and myocardial taurine content.
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    Chapter 9 Reduction of Intrinsic Contractile Function of the Left Ventricle by Taurine Deficiency in Cats
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    Chapter 10 “Activation” of Alveolar Leukocytes Isolated From Cats Fed Taurine-Free Diets
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    Chapter 11 High Dietary Taurine and Feline Reproduction
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    Chapter 12 Taurine Distribution in the Cat Muscle: An Immunohistochemical Study
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    Chapter 13 Review: Myocardial Physiological Effects of Taurine and Their Significance
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    Chapter 14 Sarcolemmal Actions of Taurine Linked to Altered Phospholipid N-Methylation
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    Chapter 15 Taurine Effects on Ionic Currents in Myocardial Cells
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    Chapter 16 Taurine Attenuates Contracture Induced by Perfusion with Low Sodium, High Calcium Medium in Chick Hearts
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    Chapter 17 Effect of Taurine on Intracellular Calcium Dynamics of Cultured Myocardial Cells During the Calcium Paradox
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    Chapter 18 Intracellular Effects of Taurine: Studies on Skinned Cardiac Preparations
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    Chapter 19 Effects of Taurine Deficiency on Arrhythmogenesis and Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Cardiac Tissue
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    Chapter 20 Taurine Potentiates the Antiaggregatory Action of Aspirin and Indomethacin
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    Chapter 21 Antiarrhythmic Action of Taurine
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    Chapter 22 Mechanism Underlying Physiological Modulation of Myocardial Contraction by Taurine
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    Chapter 23 Effects of Taurine Depletion on Membrane Electrical Properties of Rat Skeletal Muscle
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    Chapter 24 Regression of Taurine Depletion in Rhesus Monkeys Deprived of Dietary Taurine throughout the First Year
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    Chapter 25 Taurine Transport in the Mouse Cerebral Cortex during Development and Ageing
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    Chapter 26 Phospholipids, Phospholipid Methylation and Taurine Content in Synaptosomes of Developing Rat Brain
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    Chapter 27 The Effect of Taurine on the Age-Related Decline of the Immune Response in Mice: the Restorative Effect on the T Cellproliferative Response to Costimulation with Ionomycin and Phorbol Myristate Acetate
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    Chapter 28 Effects of Taurine Deficiency on Immune Function in Mice
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    Chapter 29 Review: Recent Studies on Taurine in the Central Nervous System
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    Chapter 30 Pathologies of the CNS and Associated Taurine Changes
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    Chapter 31 Taurine Receptor: Kinetic Analysis and Pharmacological Studies
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    Chapter 32 Evoked Endogenous Taurine Release from Cultured Cerebellar Neurons
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    Chapter 33 Effect of Hepes on the Uptake of Taurine by Cultured Nervous Cells
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    Chapter 34 The Trophic Role of Taurine in the Retina. A Possible Mechanism of Action
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    Chapter 35 Endogenous Regulation of the Taurine Receptor
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    Chapter 36 Localization of Taurine and Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein in Human Optic Nerve Using Immunocytochemical Techniques
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    Chapter 37 Effects of Taurine on Protein Phosphorylation in Mammalian Tissues
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    Chapter 38 Taurine Protection of Lungs in Hamster Models of Oxidant Injury: A Morphologic Time Study of Paraquat and Bleomycin Treatment
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    Chapter 39 Taurine and Niacin Offer a Novel Therapeutic Modality in Prevention of Chemically-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis in Hamsters
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    Chapter 40 Taurine Protects Against Oxidant Injury to Rat Alveolar Pneumocytes
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    Chapter 41 The Protective Effect of Taurine on the Biomembrane Against Damage Produced by the Oxygen Radical
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    Chapter 42 Volume Regulatory Fluxes in Glial and Renal Cells
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    Chapter 43 Cell Volume Changes and Taurine Release in Cerebral Cortical Slices
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    Chapter 44 L-Glutamate-Induced Swelling of Cultured Astrocytes
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    Chapter 45 Taurine and Volume Regulation in Isolated Nerve Endings
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    Chapter 46 Hyperosmolarity and Taurine Content, Uptake and Release in Astrocytes
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    Chapter 47 GABA and Taurine Serve as Respectively a Neurotransmitter and an Osmolyte in Cultured Cerebral Cortical Neurons
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    Chapter 48 Potassium-Stimulated Release of Taurine in a Crude Retinal Preparation Obtained from the Rat is Calcium Independent
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    Chapter 49 Characteristics of Taurine Transport in Cultured Renal Epithelial Cell Lines: Asymmetric Polarity of Proximal and Distal Cell Lines
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    Chapter 50 Metabolism of Cysteine to Taurine by Rat Hepatocytes
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    Chapter 51 Recent Developments in Assays for Taurine, Hypotaurine and Some Metabolic Precursors
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    Chapter 52 Anion-Exchange HPLC of Taurine, Cysteinesulfinate and Cysteic Acid
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    Chapter 53 Hypotaurine in Male Reproduction