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The Biology of Taurine - Methods and Mechanisms (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
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The Biology of Taurine - Methods and Mechanisms (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 217
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I was pleased and at the same time filled with some misgivings when
Professors Alberto Giotti end Ryan Huxtable asked me to introduce
this book. The book is the outcome of the Symposium held in
Firenze-San Miniato (PI), October 6-9, 1986. The symposium was
entitled "Sulfur Amino Acids, Peptides and Related Compounds" and
was the 7th international symposium on taurine ssnd assooiated
substances. It is always difficult to introduce, with the right
brevity end emphasis, a topic which has been studied in depth by
numerous experte. Nevertheless, I shall do my best to give a
historical perspeotive of the subjects of the meeting which I
consider to be very important for the frontiers of researoh on
taurine. ~he following topios have also beoome coherent areas of
study during the development of researoh on taurine: metabolism,
nutrition, neurochemistry, cardiovasoular regulation. Although
taurine was isolated in 1821 by ~iedman and Gmel1n, its only
biochemioal role known at the time was the synthesis of bile saIte
in mammalian tissue. There has been an inoreasing interest in the
biologioal action of taurine from metabolio aspects to other
biologioal aspects (nutrition, development, eto.). In 1975 it was
first demonstrated that taurine deprivation produoed retinal
degeneration in cats; more reoent studies showed that a
taurine-free diet or the administration of taurine transport
inhibitors caused retinal degeneration in other mammlas. More
reoent studies have pointed out the role of taurine in development,
and the first part of this book is dedicated to these topios.
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