Regulation and Effect of Taurine on Metabolism

• Other Authors: Miyazaki, Teruo (Editor), Ito, Takashi (Editor), Baseggio Conrado, Alessia (Editor), Murakami, Shigeru (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Technology, engineering, agriculture; taurine; NAT; carnitine; ACT; acetyl-CoA; mitochondria; endurance exercise; skeletal muscle; transport; blood-testis barrier; seminiferous tubules; antioxidant; infertility; CRF; chicks; isolation stress; sedation; hypnosis; osmolytes; muscle; Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy; mdx; 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid; developmental programming; GABAA receptors; glycine receptors; neural progenitor; neural stem cell; perinatal nutrition; placental transfer; obesity; taurine transporter; N-chlorotaurine; lung inflammation; cytokine; muscle wasting; atrophy; diabetes; GLUT-2; oxidative stress; glycogen; glucose metabolism; knockout mice; brain; body weight; behavior; TXNIP; Ets-1; ERK; fat metabolism; liver fat accumulation; RNA-Seq; Epinephelus coioides; n/a
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Taurine (2-aminoethanesulfonic acid) has been reported to have a lot of physiological and pharmacological functions in various tissues, cells, and organelles in many species since discovered in the gall bladder of bovine in 1827, and its novel functions and roles have now been focused in many fields. This Special Issue consisted of eight original and two review articles contains the newest findings on the roles of taurine as an essential nutrient for development and growth in fetuses and infants, and functional maintenance in the brain, skeletal muscles, and others in adults, in mammalian, chicken, and fish.