...Akiharu Watanabe; Norio Hobara; Hideo Nagashima D -Pantethine-related metabolites, such as taurine, D -pantetheine, coenzyme A and D -pantothenate, activated yeast aldedehyde dehydrogenase in vitro. D -Pantethine and cysteamine hydrochloride, however, strongly inhibited the activity of this enzyme...

...Claude Loriette; Herminia Pasantes-Morales; Christiane Portemer; Fernande Chatagner Activities of cysteine dioxygenase (CO) and cysteine sulfinate decarboxylase (CSD) and the concentrations of taurine (T) in brain, liver and kidney of rats fed on diets containing 18% casein (A), 60% casein (B...

...Ryan J. Huxtable; Shirley E. Lippincott The relative contributions have been determined of taurine derived from the mother in utero, via milk during nursing, and from endogenous biosynthesis to the total taurine content of the rat pup between birth and weaning. At birth, 32% of the taurine...

...Cheng Gao Zhang; Sung-Jin Kim Taurine has a variety of actions in the body such as cardiotonic, host-defensive, radioprotective and glucose-regulatory effects. However, its action in the central nervous system remains to be characterized. In the present study, we tested to see whether taurine...