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Review: Recent Studies on Taurine in the Central Nervous System

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Taurine

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 315))

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The functions of taurine in the central nervous system are ambiguous at best and any review concerning this ubiquitous compound, unless truly exhaustive, suffers from the problem of where to start. With this problem in mind I have opted to review select papers dealing with taurine and the brain that have been published since 1989 when the very elegant and comprehensive review entitled “Taurine in the Central Nervous System and the Mammalian Actions of Taurine” by Ryan Huxtable was published1. Articles referring to taurine and the retina will also be omitted since this subject has been recently reviewed elsewhere2.

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  1. Departments of Pharmacology and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, 79430, USA

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  2. University of South Alabama School of Medicine, Mobile, Alabama, USA

    Stephen W. Schaffer

  3. Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan

    Junichi Azuma

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Lombardini, J.B. (1992). Review: Recent Studies on Taurine in the Central Nervous System. In: Lombardini, J.B., Schaffer, S.W., Azuma, J. (eds) Taurine. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 315. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3436-5_29

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