Taurine in Health and Disease

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Possible Relationships between Taurine Derivatives and Products of the Metabolism of Ketimines....Pages 1-7
The Inhibitory Effects of Taurine on Protein Phosphorylation: Comparison of Various Characteristics of the Taurine-Affected Phosphoproteins Present in Rat Retina, Brain and Heart....Pages 9-17
Effect of Photolytically Generated Riboflavin Radicals and Oxygen on Hypotaurine Antioxidant Free Radical Scavenging Activity....Pages 19-29
Taurine Protects against Oxidant-Induced Lung Injury: Possible Mechanism(s) of Action....Pages 31-39
Sulphur Amino Acids and the Metabolic Response to Cytokines....Pages 41-49
Expression and Regulation of the Taurine Transporter in Cultured Cell Lines of Human Origin....Pages 51-57
Dietary Taurine Requirement of Cats is Determined by Microbial Degradation of Taurine in the Gut....Pages 59-70
Reactivity of Taurine with Aldehydes and its Physiological Role....Pages 71-78
Hepatic Regulation of Cysteine Utilization for Taurine Synthesis....Pages 79-89
Immunohistochemical Localization of Taurine-Conjugated Bile Acids in the Liver of Mouse, Rat, Monkey and Human....Pages 91-98
Effects of Taurine on Microsomal Enzyme Activities Involved in Liver Lipid Metabolism of Wistar Rats....Pages 99-110
Inhibitors of Anion Exchanger Activity Reduce Sodium Chloride-Dependent Taurine Transport by Brush Border Vesicles....Pages 111-120
Expression of Taurine Transporter and its Regulation by Diet in Xenopus laevis Oocytes Following Injection of Rat Kidney Cortex mRNA....Pages 121-130
Regulation of Taurine Transport by External Taurine Concentration and Medium Osmolality in Renal Tubular Cells in Culture....Pages 131-138
Role of Taurine in the Kidney: Osmoregulatory Taurine Accumulation in Renal Medulla....Pages 139-148
Taurine and Experimental Kidney Disease....Pages 149-157
Protecting effect of Taurine against Hypoxic Cell Damage in Renal Tubular Cells Cultured in Different Transplant Preservation Solutions....Pages 159-169
Mechanisms Underlying Physiological and Pharmacological Actions of Taurine on Myocardial Calcium Transport....Pages 171-180
Cardioprotective Actions of Taurine against Intracellular and Extracellular Calcium-Induced Effects....Pages 181-196
Antihypertensive Effect of Taurine on Salt-Induced Hypertension....Pages 197-206
The Effect of Taurine on Blood Pressure, and Urinary Sodium, Potassium and Calcium Excretion....Pages 207-215
Dual Effects of Taurine on Membrane Ionic Conductances of Rat Skeletal Muscle Fibers....Pages 217-224
New Data on the Regulation of Taurine Uptake in Cultured Nervous Cells....Pages 225-233
Changes in the Localization of Taurine-Like Immunoreactivity during Development and Regeneration in the Rat Brain....Pages 235-243
Transmitter and Electrical Stimulation of [ 3 H]Taurine Release from Rat Sympathetic Ganglia....Pages 245-255
Cysteine Sulfinate Decarboxylase in Brain: Identification, Characterization and Immunocytochemical Location in Astrocytes....Pages 257-268
Relations of Taurine Release and Influx to Cell Volumes in Cerebral Cortical Slices....Pages 269-277
Taurine Release from Mouse Hippocampal Slices: Effects of Glutamatergic Substances and Hypoxia....Pages 279-287
Taurine Neurons in Rat Hippocampal Formation are Relatively Inert to Cerebral Ischemia....Pages 289-298
Calcium and Taurine Interaction in Mammalian Brain Metabolism....Pages 299-308
Regulation of Protein Kinase C Activity by Taurine and β-Alanine during Excitotoxicity in Cat and Mouse Cerebellar Cultures....Pages 309-316
Volume Regulation in Cultured Neurons: Pivotal Role of Taurine....Pages 317-323
Taurine as an Organic Osmolyte in the Intact Brain: Immunocytochemical and Biochemical Studies....Pages 325-334
Alterations of Ventricular Contractility and Myofibril Loss in Taurine-Deficient Hearts....Pages 335-342
Developmental Effects of Taurine Depletion on Synaptosomal Phospholipids in the Rat....Pages 343-354
Taurine Depletion and Synaptosomal Phospholipid Content in Cat Brain....Pages 355-360
Cell Volume Regulation in Taurine Deficient Cultured Astrocytes....Pages 361-367
Feline Maternal Taurine Deficiency: Effects on Visual Cortex of the Offspring. A Morphometric and Immunohistochemical Study....Pages 369-384
Effects of Postnatal Taurine Deprivation on Visual Cortex Development in Rhesus Monkeys through One Year of Age....Pages 385-392
The Role of Taurine in Mammalian Hearing....Pages 393-398
The Plasma Concentration and Renal Handling of Taurine in Healthy Children and in Pediatric Patients with Disturbed Sulfur Metabolism....Pages 399-403
Breast Milk Taurine and its Possible Influence on the Development of Breast Milk Induced Jaundice of the Neonate — A Hypothesis....Pages 405-410
Taurine in the Newborn and Infant Undergoing Surgery....Pages 411-412
Taurine and the Lung: Pharmacological Intervention by Aerosol Route....Pages 413-417
Taurine Levels in Plasma and Platelets in Insulin-Dependent and Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus: Correlation with Platelet Aggregation....Pages 419-424
Long-Term Effect of Taurine in Congestive Heart Failure: Preliminary Report....Pages 425-433
Neuroactive Amino Acids in Synaptosomes from Focal and Nonfocal Temporal Lobe Tissue of Patients with Intractable Complex Partial Seizures....Pages 435-443
Back Matter....Pages 445-458