Extensive taurine depletion and retinal degeneration in cats treated with β-alanine for 40 weeks

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 442, Issue , 1998, Pages 449-460

  Imaki, Humi ^a   Messing, Jeffrey ^a   Sturman, John A ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE; TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; FEMALE; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0031810356     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-0117-0_55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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