Platelet Taurine Uptake in Spinocerebellar Degeneration
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences
- Vol. 5 (1) , 119-123
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0317167100024896
Abstract
SUMMARY: The uptake of 14C-laurine was studied in the platelets of 20 ataxic patients and 20 age-matched normal control subjects. No significant differences were found in uptake or kinetics of taurine between the two groups of subjects. If a transport defect in taurine exists in Friedreich's ataxia, it is not present in all tissues. Preliminary indication was obtained in favor of heterogenity of the uptake pattern between ataxic individuals.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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