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Platelet Taurine Uptake in Spinocerebellar Degeneration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

A. Filla ,
R. F. Butterworth ,
G. Geoffroy ,
B. Lemieux  and
A. Barbeau
A. Filla
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal; Hôpital Sainte-Justine; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke
R. F. Butterworth
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal; Hôpital Sainte-Justine; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke
G. Geoffroy
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal; Hôpital Sainte-Justine; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke
B. Lemieux
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal; Hôpital Sainte-Justine; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke
A. Barbeau*
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal; Hôpital Sainte-Justine; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke
*
Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, 110 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2W 1R7
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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.

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Quebec Cooperative Study of Friedreich's Ataxia
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Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , February 1978 , pp. 119 - 123
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Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1978

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