Taurine 5 : beginning the 21st century / edited by John B. Lombardini, Stephen W. Schaffer, and Junichi Azuma.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Lombardini, J. Barry.

Schaffer, S. W.

Azuma, Junichi.

Conference Name:

International Taurine Symposium (2002 : Kauai, Hawaii)

Series:

Advances in experimental medicine and biology 0065-2598 ; v. 526.

Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 0065-2598 ; v. 526

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taurine--Physiological effect--Congresses.

Taurine.

Taurine--physiology.

Taurine--Physiological effect.

Medical Subjects:

Taurine--physiology.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxx, 573 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Taurine five

Place of Publication:

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

What is the physiological, pharmacological, nutritional, andpathological role of taurine? This latest volume in our mini series ofTaurine Symposia proceedings, Taurine - Significance for the 21stCentury, held September 20-23, 2002, in Kauai, Hawaii, discusses therole and actions of taurine and attempts to answer this centralquestion.

Contents:

A Voice From the Past / John Sturman 1

Part 1. Cardiovascular and Renal Effects of Taurine

1. Inhibitory Mechanism of Taurine on the Platelet-Derived Growth Factor BB-Mediated Proliferation in Aortic Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells / Keisuke Imada, Yu Hosokawa, Masaharu Terashima, Toshifumi Mitani, Yoshinori Tanigawa, Kazumi Nakano, Takaaki Takenaga, Michio Kurachi 5

2. Taurine on Sino-Atrial Nodal Cells: Ca[superscript 2+]-Dependent Modulation / Hiroyasu Satoh 17

3. Cellular Characterization of Taurine Transporter in Cultured Cardiac Myocytes and Nonmyocytes / Tomoka Takatani, Kyoko Takahashi, Takashi Itoh, Koichi Takahashi, Mayo Hirata, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Masanori Ohmoto, Stephen W. Schaffer, Junichi Azuma 25

4. Taurine Transporter in Cultured Neonatal Cardiomyocytes: a Response to Cardiac Hypertrophy / Takashi Itoh, Kyoko Takahashi, Yoko Yamauchi, Koichi Takahashi, Sato Ueyama, Stephen W. Schaffer, Junichi Azuma 33

5. Effect of Taurine and Coenzyme Q10 in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction / R.B. Singh, K. Kartikey, A.S. Charu, M.A. Niaz, S. Schaffer 41

6. Taurine Reduces Renal Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in the Rat / D.V. Michalk, B. Hoffmann, Th. Minor 49

7. Taurine-Depleted Heart and Afterload Pressure / Mahmood S. Mozaffari, Nisha Patel, Stephen W. Schaffer 57

Part 2. Role of Taurine in Diabetes

8. Taurine Reduces Mortality in Diabetic Rats: Taurine and Experimental Diabetes Mellitus / Flavia Franconi, Stefano A. Santini, Nicolo Gentiloni Silveri, Salvatore Caputo, Bruno Giardina, Giovanni Ghirlanda, Mauro A.S. Di Leo 67

9. The Effect of Dietary Taurine Supplementation on Plasma and Urinary Free Amino Acid Concentrations in Diabetic Rats / Young-Mi Lee, Mi Ja Choi, Kyung Ja Chang 75

10. Insulin-Stimulated Taurine Uptake in the Rat Retina / Rocio Salceda 83

11. The Effects of Taurine Supplementation on Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus / Katherine B. Chauncey, Thomas E. Tenner, Jr., John B. Lombardini, Betsy G. Jones, Michele L. Brooks, Ronald D. Warner, Randall L. Davis, R. Michael Ragain 91

12. Hypoglycemic Effects of Taurine in the Alloxan-Treated Rabbit: a Model for Type 1 Diabetes / Thomas E. Tenner, Jr., X. J. Zhang, John B. Lombardini 97

Part 3. Osmoregulatory Properties of Taurine and Taurine Transport

13. Taurine and Cellular Volume Regulation in the Hippocampus / James E. Olson, Norman R. Kreisman, Jenny Lim, Beth Hoffman-Kuczynski, Dana Schelble, James Leasure 107

14. Regulation of the Volume-Sensitive Taurine Efflux Pathway in NIH3T3 Mouse Fibroblasts / Ian Henry Lambert 115

15. Taurine Counteracts Cell Swelling in Rat Cerebrocortical Slices Exposed to Ammonia in Vitro and in Vivo / R.O. Law, M. Zielinska, J. Albrecht 123

16. Cloning of Human Intestinal Taurine Transporter and Production of Polyclonal Antibody / Hye Suk An, Hee Chang Han, Taesun Park, Kun Koo Park, Ha Won Kim 131

17. Transactivation of TauT by p53 in MCF-7 Cells: The Role of Estrogen Receptors / Xiaobin Han, Andrea Budreau Patters, Russell W. Chesney 139

18. Gating of Taurine Transport: Role of the Fourth Segment of the Taurine Transporter / Xiaobin Han, Andrea Budreau Patters, Russell W. Chesney 149

19. Finding of TRE (TPA Responsive Element) in the Sequence of Human Taurine Transporter Promoter / Kun-Koo Park, Eunhye Jung, Sang-Keun Chon, Mooseok Seo, Ha Won Kim, Taesun Park 159

20. Procein Kinase C and cAMP Mediated Regulation of Taurine Transport in Human Colon Carcinoma Cell Lines (HT-29 & Caco-2) / Sangyoun Park, Haemi Lee, Kun-Koo Park, Ha Won Kim, Taesun Park 167

21. Characterization of Transcriptional Activity of Taurine Transporter Using Luciferase Reporter Constructs / Kun-Koo Park, Sang-Keun Chon, Eunhye Jung, Mooseok Seo, Ha Won Kim, Taesun Park 175

22. Isovolumetric Regulation in Mammal Cells: Role of Taurine / B. Ordaz, R. Franco, K. Tuz 183

23. Osmosensitive Taurine Release: Does Taurine Share the Same Osmosensitive Efflux Pathway With Chloride and Other Amino Acid Osmolytes? / Rodrigo Franco 189

24. Electrophysiological properties of the Mouse Na[superscript +]Cl[superscript -] - Dependent Taurine Transporter (mTauT-1): Steady-State Kinetics: Stoichiometry of Taurine Transport / Hemanta K. Sarkar, Ernest M. Wright, Kathryn J. Boorer, Donald D.F. Loo 197

25. Taurine Uptake and Release by the Pancreatic [beta]-Cells: Taurine Transport in [beta]-Cells / Shyamala Vinnakota, Hemanta K. Sarkar 205

26. Regulation of Intestinal Taurine Transporter by Cytokines / Makoto Shimizu, Tetsunosuke Mochizuki, Hideo Satsu 213

Part 4. Taurine Synthesis, Localization, Determination, and Nutrition

27. Determination of Taurine and Hypotaurine in Animal Tissues by Reversed-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography after Derivatization with Dabsyl Chloride / Hironori Nakamura, Toshihiko Ubuka 221

28. Immunohistochemical Localization of Taurine in the Rat Stomach / Ning Ma, Xiaohui Ding, Tatsuo Miwa, Reiji Semba 229

29. Modulation of Taurine on CYP3A4 Induction by Rifampicin in a HepG2 Cell Line / Kyoko Takahashi, Hideyasu Matsuda, Kayoko Kinoshita, Norikazu Matsunaga, Akihiko Sumita, Takahisa Matsuda, Koichi Takahashi, Junichi Azuma 237

30. Effect of Acute Ethanol Administration on S-Amino Acid Metabolism: Increased Utilization of Cysteine for Synthesis of Taurine Rather Than Glutathione / Young S. Jung, Hye E. Kwak, Kwon H. Choi, Young C. Kim 245

31. Effects of Dietary Taurine Supplementation on Hepatic Morphological Changes of Rats in Diethynitrosamine-Induced Hepatocarcinogenesis / Kyung Ja Chang, Chai Hyeock Yu, Miwon Son 253

32. Effect of Taurine on Cholesterol Degradation and Bile Acid Pool in Rats Fed a High-Cholesterol Diet / Wen Chen, Naomichi Nishimura, Hiroaki Oda, Hidehiko Yokogoshi 261

33. Effect of [alpha]-Tocopherol and Taurine Supplementation on Oxidized LDL Levels of Middle Aged Korean Women During Aerobic Exercise / C.S. Ahn, E.S. Kim 269

34. Dietary Taurine Intake and Serum Taurine Levels of Women on Jeju Island / E.S. Kim, J.S. Kim, M.H. Yim, Y. Jeong, Y.S. Ko, T. Watanabe, H. Nakatsuka, S. Nakatsuka, N. Matsuda-Inoguchi, S. Shimbo, M. Ikeda 277

35. Effect of the Obesity Index on Plasma Taurine Levels in Korean Female Adolescents / Mi Young Lee, Sun Hee Cheong, Kyung Ja Chang, Mi Ja Choi, Soon Ki Kim 285

36. Regional Differences in the Dietary Taurine Intake in Korean College Students / Jeonghee Lee, Heaeun You, Hyuni Sung, Jinoh Kwak, Kyung Ja Chang, Seoyoun Kim, Hyunjung Kim, Yeojin Lee, Taesun Park 291

37. Turine Concentration in Human Blood Peripheral Lymphocytes: Major Depression and Treatment with the Antidepressant Mirtazapine / Luricey Lima, Francisco Obregon, Mary Urbina, Liabel Carreira, Edith Baccichet, Solisbella Pena 297

Part 5. Taurine: Growth, Antioxidants, and Inflammation

38. Why Is Taurine Cytoprotective? / Stephen Schaffer, Junichi Azuma, Kyoko Takahashi, Mahmood Mozaffari 307

39. Taurine, Analogues and Bone: a Growing Relationship / Ramesh C. Gupta, Sung-Jin Kim 323

40. Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Taurine Chloramine: Implication for Immunoregulation and Pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis / Ewa Kontny, WLodzimierz Maslinski, Janusz Marcinkiewicz 329

41. Taurine Chloramine Inhibits Production of Inflammatory Mediators and iNOS Gene Expression in Alveolar Macrophages; a Tale of Two Pathways: Part I, NF-[kappa]B Signaling / Michael R. Quinn, Madhabi Barua, Yong Liu, Valeria Serban 341

42. Taurine Chloramine Inhibits Production of Inflammatory Mediators and iNOS Gene Expression in Alveolar Macrophages; a Tale of Two Pathways: Part II, IFN-[gamma] Signaling Through JAK/Stat / Michael R. Quinn, Yong Liu, Madhabi Barua, Valeria Serban 349

43. Production of Nitric Oxide by Activated Microglial cells Is Inhibited by Taurine Chloramine / Valeria Serban, Yong Liu, Michael R. Quinn 357

44. Production of Inflammatory Mediators by Activated C6 Cells Is Attenuated by Taurine Chloramine Inhibition of NF-[kappa]B Activation / Yong Liu, Madhabi Barua, Valeria Serban, Michael R.

Quinn 365

45. Taurine Is Involved in Oxidation of I[kappa]B[alpha] at Met45: N-Halogenated Taurine and Anti-inflammatory Action / Yusei Miyamoto, Atsuhiro Kanayama, Jun-Ichiro Inoue, Yoshiko S. Konishi, Makoto Shimizu 373

46. The Combined Treatment with Taurine and Niacin Blocks the Bleomycin-Induced Activation of Nuclear Factor-kB and Lung fibrosis / Shri N. Giri 381

47. Taurine Reduces Lung Inflammation and Fibrosis Caused by Bleomycin / Georgia B. Schuller-Levis, Ronald E. Gordon, Chuanhua Wang, Eunkyue Park 395

48. Taurine and the Lung, Which Role in Asthma? / Francesco Santangelo, Julio Cortijo, Esteban Morcillo 403

49. Effect of Taurine and Other Antioxidants on the Growth of Colon Carcinoma Cells in the Presence of Doxorubicin or Vinblastine in Hypoxic or in Ambient Oxygen Conditions: Effect of Antioxidants on the Action of Antineoplastic Drugs in MDR and non-MDR Cells / C. Wersinger, G. Rebel, I. Lelong-Rebel 411

Part 6. Taurine: Retina and the Brain

50. The Role of Taurine in Cerebral Ischemia: Studies in Transient Forebrain Ischemia and Embolic Focal Ischemia in Rodents / Ashfaq Shuaib 421

51. Studies on Taurine Efflux from the Rat Cerebral Cortex During Exposure to Hyposmotic, High K[superscript +] and Ouabain-Containing aCSF / John W. Phillis, Michael H. O'Regan 433

52. Interactions of Taurine and Adenosine in the Mouse Hippocampus in Normoxia and Ischemia / Pirjo Saransaari, Simo S. Oja 445

53. Involvement of Nitric Oxide in Ischemia-Evoked Taurine Release in the Mouse Hippocampus / Pirjo Saransaari, Simo S. Oja 453

54. Effect of Ammonia on Taurine Transport in C6 Glioma Cells / Magdalena Zielinska, Barbara Zablocka, Jan Albrecht 463

55. Turine and Hypotaurine Dynamics in Activated C6 Glioma: The Effects of Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and Taurine Administration on Intracellular Hypotaurine and Taurine Dynamics in C6 Glioma / John Dominy, Jr., Ralph Dawson, Jr. 471

56. The Anti-Craving Taurine Derivative Acamprosate: Failure to Extinguish Morphine Conditioned Place Preference / M. Foster Olive 481

57. Ethanol-Induced Taurine Efflux: Low Dose Effects and High Temporal Resolution / Anthony Smith, Christopher J. Watson, Robert T. Kennedy, Joanna Peris 485

58. Tyrosine Kinases and Taurine Release: Signaling Events and Amino Acid Release Under Hyposmotic and Ischemic Conditions in the Chicken Retina / L.D. Ochoa-De La Paz, R.A. Lezama 493

59. Effect of Taurine on Regulation of GABA and Acetylcholine Biosynthesis / Di Sha, Jianning Wei, Hong Jin, Heng Wu, Gregory L. Osterhaus, Jang-Yen Wu 499

60. Taurine Effect on Neuritic Outgrowth from Goldfish Retinal Explants in the Absence and Presence of Fetal Calf Serum / Lucimey Lima, Suzana Cubillos, Fili Fazzino 507

61. Prevention of Epileptic Seizures by Taurine / Abdeslem El Idrissi, Jeffrey Messing, Jason Scalia, Ekkhart Trenkner 515

62. Taurine Regulates Mitochondrial Calcium Homeostasis / Abdeslem El Idrissi, Ekkhart Trenkner 527

63. Taurine in Aging and Models of Neurodegeneration / Ralph Dawson, Jr. 537

64. Taurine Stimulation of Calcium Uptake in the Retina: Mechanism of Action / Julius D. Militante, John B. Lombardini 547

65. The Nature of Taurine Binding to Retinal Membranes / Julius D. Militante, John B. Lombardini 555.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0306477696

OCLC:

52342064