Taurine

Title: Taurine
Creator: Baines, Surinder
Relation: Herbs & Natural Supplements: An Evidence-Based Guide p. 881-885
Relation: http://store.elsevier.com/Herbs-and-Natural-Supplements/Lesley-Braun/isbn-9780729539104
Publisher: Elsevier Australia
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2010
Description: Taurine occurs as one of the most abundant free amino acids in a wide variety of animal tissues; it is mostly absent from plants. In man and other mammals, the highest taurine concentrations are found in heart, retina, spleen and bone marrow. Blood cells such as platelets and leucocytes are also very rich in taurine. Traditionally taurine has been regarded as an end product of methionine metabolism. Other pathways for taurine biosynthesis exist but they have not been fully characterised and in mammals the cysteinsulfinate pathway seems to be the major pathway.
Subject: taurine; amino acids; animal tissues; blood cells
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932311
Identifier: uon:11311
Identifier: ISBN:9780729539104
Language: eng

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