Taurine
"Taurine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A conditionally essential nutrient, important during mammalian development. It is present in milk but is isolated mostly from ox bile and strongly conjugates bile acids.
Descriptor ID |
D013654
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MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.326.146.100.850 D02.886.645.600.055.850
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Csanaky IL, Aleksunes LM, Tanaka Y, Klaassen CD. Role of hepatic transporters in prevention of bile acid toxicity after partial hepatectomy in mice. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2009 Sep; 297(3):G419-33.