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The hypoglycemic effect of taurine was discovered in 1935 by Ackerman and Heisen1. Dokshina et al. 3 found later in the seventies that taurine increased glucose consumption in diaphragm tissue and glycogen accumulation by leukocytes and liver. Kulakowski and Maturo7 in the eighties also described insulin-like activity of taurine. Lampson, Kramer and Schaffer5 found that taurine potentiated the effect of insulin and influenced activity of phosphorylase a and glycogen synthase I.
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Elizarova, E.P., Nedosugova, L.V. (1996). First Experiments in Taurine Administration for Diabetes Mellitus. 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_63
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