DIETARY CASEIN LEVELS AND TAURINE SUPPLEMENTATION - EFFECTS ON CYSTEINE DIOXYGENASE AND CYSTEINE SULFINATE DECARBOXYLASE ACTIVITIES AND TAURINE CONCENTRATION IN BRAIN, LIVER AND KIDNEY OF THE RAT

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 23  (6) , 467-475
Abstract
Activities of cysteine dioxygenase (CO) and cysteine sulfinate decarboxylase (CSD) and the concentrations of taurine (T) were measured in brain, liver and kidney of rats fed diets containing 18% casein (A), 60% casein (B) and 17% casein supplemented with 1% of taurine (+T). Regardless of the diet, the 3 measurements were the same in the brains of the animals in the 3 groups. In the liver and the kidney, CO activity was the same in all 3 diets but a decrease of CSD activity was associated with an increase of T in rats fed diet B. The taurine-supplemented diet led to an increase in T concentration.

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