Possible Interaction: Antioxidants and Taurine

“ Taurine improved the antioxidant capacity of cells, restored the alterations in the activities of various metabolic enzymes, and prevented morphological changes in erythrocytes.”

“ Taurine and Mg supplementation increased EPC colony formation in healthy men and improved impaired EPC function in SHRs through antioxidation , indicating that the dietary intake of taurine and Mg may prolong lifespan by preventing the progression of cardiovascular diseases.”

“In conclusion, the present study demonstrated that taurine could inhibit the injury induced by ISO by increasing myocardial negative inotropic effect and antioxidant ability , decreasing the hypertrophic response to isoproterenol and protecting the integrity of -myocardial ultrastructure, decreasing myocardial leak of CK-MB.”

“Besides, Tau also enhanced (p < 0.05) liver antioxidant capacities (GSH, TEAC, SOD, and CAT) and decreased (p < 0.05) lipid peroxidation (MDA), which alleviated liver damage in the high-fat/cholesterol dietary hamsters.”

“There are a few studies showing that taurine either modulates the antioxidant defenses or blocks the actions of the oxidants, but other studies oppose this interpretation.”

“It indicated that taurine plays an important role in the properties of antioxidation and has some improvement on the liver tests of chronic alcoholic patients.”

“In summary, taurine improves the antioxidant and anti-apoptosis ability of MAC-T cells thereby alleviates damage of cells due to heat insults.”

“Moreover, taurine not only reversed the decline in antioxidase (superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-PX)) activities but also attenuated the accumulation of malondialdehyde (MDA).”

“ Taurine … antioxidant enzyme activities and decreased (linear, P < 0.001) the content of malondialdehyde in both serum and the liver of broilers and alleviated oxidative damage ….05) the hepatic genes expression of nuclear factor erythroid-2–related factor 2 (NRF2), glutathione peroxidase (GPX), and heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1).”

“These results indicated that taurine supplementation improved the growth performance, antioxidant capacity , and lipid metabolism of broilers.”

“In summary, we found that taurine could enhance cardiomyocyte antioxidant ability and further prevented cardiomyocyte apoptosis by inhibiting the calpain-1/cytochrome c pathway during RVH in broilers.”

“The antioxidant assay demonstrated that taurine enhanced the activities of superoxide dismutase, total antioxidant capacity and glutathione peroxidase and the glutathione/glutathione disulfide ratio.”

“According to superoxide dismutase (SOD), glutathione Peroxidase (GSH‐PX), total anti‐oxidant capacity (T‐AOC) activities and malondialdehyde (MDA) content, the antioxidant capacity was significantly induced by taurine diet , while was higher in crabs fed 0.4 %–0.8% taurine diet than that of the other groups.”