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Taurine as osmoregulator and neuromodulator in the brain
1Tampere Brain Research Center, University of Tampere Medical School, Finland.
Metabolic Brain Disease
|June 1, 1996
Abstract:
Taurine has been assumed to function as an osmoregulator and neuromodulator in the brain. The pertinent studies are now reviewed in an attempt to formulate a unifying hypothesis as to how taurine could simultaneously act in both roles. Neuromodulatory actions of taurine may also underlie its protective effects against neuronal overexcitation and glutamate agonist-induced neurotoxicity.