Photochemical Damage in the Albino Rat Retina: Oral Taurine Has No Effect on DNA and Protein Loss from Severely Damaged Photoreceptor Cells
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 42 (2) , 582-583
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1984.tb02717.x
Abstract
Albino Wistar rats were exposed continuously to fluorescent light, causing photoreceptor destruction over a period of 4 days. The rate of DNA and protein loss from the cells was not affected by administration of 5% taurine in the drinking water.Keywords
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