Taurine 3: Cellular and Regulatory Mechanisms - Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 1998 edition

Marc Notes: Proceedings of the International Taurine Symposium '97: Cellular and regulatory mechanisms, held July 15-19, 1997, in Tucson, Arizona--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Metabolism of Taurine: Hypotaurine Oxidation: An HPLC-Mass Approach; S. Dupre, et al. Taurine and the Liver and Pancreas: Taurine Levels and Localization in Pancreatic Islets; J. Bustamante, et al. Taurine in Muscle and the Cardiovascular System: Effect of Taurine on Excitation-Contraction Coupling of the Extensor Digitorum Longus Muscle of the Dystrophic MDX Mouse; A. De Luca, et al. Antioxidant and Anti-Ischemic Actions of Taurine: taurine Inhibition of Iron-Stimulated Catecholamine Oxidation; R. Dawson, Jr., et al. Osmotic Actions of Taurine: Taurine: An Osmolyte in Mammalian Tissues; H. Pasantes-Morales, et al. Transport and General Studies on Taurine: Effects of Steroid Hormones and Cyclosporine A on Taurine-Transporter Activity in the RAW264.7 Cell Line; H. W. Kim, et al. Taurine and the Central Nervous System I: The Brain: Interrelationship Between Taurine and GABA; K. Kuriyama, T. Hashimoto. Taurine and the Central Nervous System II: The Retina: The Role of Taurine in Osmotic, Mechanical and Chemical Protection of the Retinal Rod Outer Segments; A. M. Petrosian, J. E. Haroutounian. Taurine and Human Nutrition: The Role of Taurine in Infant Nutrition; R. W. Chesney, et al. 53 Additional Chapters. Index."Publisher Marketing: This volume is the selected, edited proceedings of the International Taurine Sympo th sium held in Tucson, Arizona, in July 1997. The meeting was a satellite symposium ofthe 16 Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry, which was held in Boston immediately following the Tucson meeting. In view of the desert location of Tucson, the meeting was advertised tongue-in-cheek as being the hottest scientific meeting ever. As the weather lived up to its billing, the Symposium may well have earned the title. The meeting was held in an atmospheric cluster of adobe buildings, old by the stan dards of the American southwest, at the Westward Look Resort in the Sonoran Desert foot hills of Tucson, which is overlooked by the 9000' high Santa Catalina mountains. As is the norm for taurine symposia, participants formed a multinational group, with representatives from China, Korea, Japan, United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Ireland, England, Spain, Italy, Finland, France, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Armenia. The meeting was organized around plenary lectures by Russell Chesney (University of Tennessee: Taurine and infant nutrition), Herminia Pasantes-Morales (National Autono mous University of Mexico: Taurine: An osmolyte in mammalian tissues) and Kinya Kuri yama (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine: Interrelationship between taurine and GABA)."

Contributor Bio:  Schaffer, Stephen W Dr. Stephen W. Schaffer is a professor at the University of South Alabama. He is a member of the editorial board of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. Dr. M.-Saadeh Suleiman is a professor at the University of Bristol, UK. His research includes investigating the role of metabolites and ionic species in myocardial protection, with special emphasis on amino acids, mitochondria, Ca2+ loading and reactive oxygen species.