Category Archives: L-taurine

The role of taurine as an antioxidant may be of primary importance in the male reproductive tract. Here the taurine may participate in fractions that protect the polyunsaturated membranes of spermatozoa and this may explain the reproductive benefits of taurine. … Continue reading →

Taurine may exert some of its beneficial physiological effects by binding to proteins. For example, it is known that taurine can bind to transport proteins and in this way affects the flux of ions such as calcium. However, it is … Continue reading →

Taurine may have the ability to interact with phospholipids and this may affect cell membranes. Taurine binds to phospholipids with low affinity to a specific binding site in the membrane. This affinity is within physiological concentrations for taurine, and this … Continue reading →

One of the main physiological functions of taurine in humans and animals is that of osmoregulation. Osmoregulation is pivotal to cell survival in animals and humans because the plasma membrane is permeable to many solutes and water and this creates … Continue reading →

The importance of taurine in animals was not understood until the old dogma of it being a waste product of sulphur metabolism was overcome. Since this time a growing list of physiological functions have been uncovered. In animals taurine is … Continue reading →

Taurine, also called 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid, is a non-proteinaceous amino acid that was first isolated from ox (Bos taurus) bile. Taurine is a sulfonic amino acid which means that rather than a carboxylic acid on the β-carbon, it has a sulfonic … Continue reading →

Taurine is the most abundant intracellular amino acid in humans, and this relates directly to its numerous physiological and biochemical functions. In the presence of pyridoxine (vitamin B6), taurine can be synthesised from methionine and cysteine. However, for most individuals, … Continue reading →

Taurine is present in all tissues in the body and is widely distributed in foods commonly eaten. However, taurine is present in high concentrations in the cardiac muscle, the skeletal muscle, the brain and the central nervous system, which relates … Continue reading →