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This investigation was improve the separation for tauret (retinylidene taurine) and to compare its content in the retina under dark and light adaptation. To prevent tauret hydrolysis, retinal samples were quickly frozen and lyophilized. Methanol extracts of dried retina and pigment epithelium from both darkor light-adapted frogs, Rana ridibunda, were injected onto HPLC. Synthetic standard tauret appeared at 4.7 min after the solvent front. At the same time, an endogenous substance was eluted from the mixed retinal and pigment epithelial samples. The UV spectra of this endogenous compound matched with the spectra of synthetic tauret obtained under identical conditions, with λmax=446 nm at peak. We conclude that the HPLC system used permitted full separation of tauret from the methanol extracts of the retina and pigment epithelium. TLC and further HPLC analysis have shown that tauret quantities were several times higher in the retina and pigment epithelium of the frogs adapted to dark compared with those light-adapted (about 4 h under 1000 1x illumination). Tauret based vitamin A transport is probably involved in other systems as well, where along with its other known beneficial effects taurine probably is necessary to facilitate vitamin A transport.
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Petrosian, A.M., Haroutounian, J.E., Gundersen, T.E., Blomhoff, R., Fugelli, K., Kanli, H. (2002). New HPLC Eevidence on Endogenous Tauret in Retina and Pigment Epithelium. In: Della Corte, L., Huxtable, R.J., Sgaragli, G., Tipton, K.F. (eds) Taurine 4. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 483. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46838-7_50
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