Abstract
No one working with taurine doubts its biological significance. Evidence continues to accumulate as to its fundamental involvement in phenomena as diverse as calcium homeostasis, osmoregulation, and membrane stabilization. The actions of taurine on these phenomena are, perhaps, interrelated. It continues to be a puzzle, however, as to why, if taurine is important for cell function, its concentration in cognate structures varies so much from species to species, or even temporally within a given species. Taurine concentrations in the heart, for example, can vary, depending on the species, over a tenfold range (10). Synaptosomal taurine concentrations in the rat can vary sixfold, depending on the developmental stage of the brain (14,23).
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Huxtable, R.J., Murphy, J., Lleu, PL. (1994). Developmental Effects of Taurine Depletion on Synaptosomal Phospholipids in the Rat. In: Huxtable, R.J., Michalk, D. (eds) Taurine in Health and Disease. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 359. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1471-2_35
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