Published October, 2011
By Stephen W. Schaffer, James J. Kocsis and S.I. Baskin
Publisher: Springer
Series: Monographs of the Physiological Society of Philadelphia
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Although taurine was discovered as a constituent of bile salts in 1857 by a chemist and an anatomist (Gmelin and Tiedemann), interest today centers chiefly on the extrahepatic actions of taurine, especially in brain, heart, and other excitable tissues.

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