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homotaurine

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More on Taurine Definition: A conditionally essential nutrient, important during mammalian development. It is present in milk but is isolated mostly from ox bile and strongly conjugates bile acids.  /biosyn /physiol permitted    Other names Taurine, Monopotassium Salt; Taurine Zinc Salt (2:1); Taurine Hydrochloride; Tauphon; Taufon
SubstanceCAS Registry & nameCategoriesSourceDrugs*
homotaurine [ 3-APS,3-amino-1-propanesulfonic acid,3-aminopropanesulfonic acid,3-aminopropylsulfonic acid,tramiprosate ]
  GABA receptor agonist and a glycosaminoglycan mimetic; has nootropic acitivity; structure; a sulfonate analog of GABA 		3687-18-1 3-amino-1-propanesulfonic acid  Taurine/*analogs & derivatives
Pharma Action Anticonvulsants; GABA Agonists 		Boll Soc Ital Biol Sper 51(22):1716-23;1975; Br J Pharmacol 52(3):439P;1974; Br J Pharmacol 63:217;1978; Cesk Fysiol 24(4):381;1975; Folia Pharmacol Jpn 67(6):564;1971; Nature 267(5607):65;1977; Nature 274(5674):904;1978; Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 305(2):155;1978

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