A role for taurine in mitochondrial function

Table 1 Oxygen uptake in permeabilised myotubes either in Tris or Taurine buffer.

Buffer	Oxygen uptake, nmol/(min mg protein)		RCR
	Mean	S.E.M.	Mean	S.E.M.
Tris	20.3	5.9	1.94	0.39
Taurine	19.7	2.6	1.89	0.40

Oxygen uptake was measured with 2 mM malate, 2 mM pyruvate and 2 mM ADP.
RCR is the fold increase in oxygen uptake by addition of 2 mM ADP to incubations with 2 mM malate and 2 mM pyruvate.

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