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Taurine occurs at high concentrations in neural tissue, for example, at about 8 μmol/g in rat cerebral cortex (Lombardini, 1976). Its role in the cerebral cortex remains obscure, although it has been proposed to act there as a neurotransmitter (Davison and Kaczmarek, 1971; Mandel and Pasantes-Morales, 1978). Its potent neuronal inhibitory properties support this possibility (Curtis and Watkins, 1960, 1965; Okamoto and Quastel, 1973).
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Wheler, G.H.T., Bradford, H.F., Davison, A.N., Thompson, E.J. (1981). Uptake and Stimulated Release of Taurine by Preparations of Cerebral Cortex. In: Schaffer, S.W., Baskin, S.I., Kocsis, J.J. (eds) The Effects of Taurine on Excitable Tissues. Monographs of the Physiological Society of Philadelphia, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8093-8_9
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