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Although taurine is found in very high concentration in the heart, a role for this amino acid has not been established. Read and Welty (24) initially reported in 1963 that taurine exhibited antiarrhythmic activity; they attributed this effect of taurine to changes in potassium flux. Since that study taurine has also been linked to changes in calcium transport (26). In addition, several investigators have described specific membrane-stabilizing effects of taurine (10,16).
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Schaffer, S.W., Kulakowski, E.C., Kramer, J.H. (1982). Taurine Transport by Reconstituted Membrane Vesicles. In: Huxtable, R.J., Pasantes-Morales, H. (eds) Taurine in Nutrition and Neurology. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 139. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0402-0_10
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