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In high-resolution 1H NMR spectroscopy, malignant glioma tissues are shown to include higher concentration of taurine than normal brain tissues do. Although it is well known that mouse astrocyte18, rat astrocyte5 and glioma cells12 have a high-affinity uptake system for taurine, little is known about such transport in human glioma cells.
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Nakamura, H., Huang, S.H., Takakura, K. (1996). High-Affinity Taurine Uptake and Its Regulation by Protein Kinase C in Human Glioma Cells. In: Huxtable, R.J., Azuma, J., Kuriyama, K., Nakagawa, M., Baba, A. (eds) Taurine 2. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 403. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0182-8_40
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