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A. N. Richards’s work was mainly concerned with kidney function and nitrogen metabolism and excretion. It is not certain that Richards would have been half so interested in a compound with a hydroxyl in place of an amine at one end, but that is where interest in the squid giant axon has taken this author, and along the way he has become acquainted with taurine.
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Hoskin, F.C.G. (1981). Cephalopod Nerve as a Model System for the Study of the Metabolism of Taurine and Related Sulfur Compounds. In: Schaffer, S.W., Baskin, S.I., Kocsis, J.J. (eds) The Effects of Taurine on Excitable Tissues. Monographs of the Physiological Society of Philadelphia, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8093-8_6
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