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Facilitated ERG recovery in taurine-treated bovine eyes, an ex vivo study
M T Tseng1, K N Liu, N R Radtke
1Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, KY 40292.
Brain Research
|February 12, 1990
Abstract:
Excorporal bovine eye with stable ERG patterns were used in this study to examine the possible antihypoxic property of the taurine. Taurine (1 mM) given prior to or after the on-set of hypoxia facilitated the retinal recovery as indicated by the B-wave amplitude changes. This observation is consistent with previous observations in hippocampal slice and other tissues which suggests an antihypoxic function of this sulfur-containing amino acid.