Platelet taurine content in Friedreich's disease

Abstract

AbstractWe have studied the concentrations of taurine and of 6 other amino acids in platelets from 12 patients with Friedreich's disease and 12 age sex-matched normal control subjects. No significant differences could be demonstrated between the two groups. The glycine/serine ratio was lower in all the patients but this change did not reach statistical significance. From these and other data, we conclude that the taurine retention deficit observed previously in Friedreich's disease cannot be the primary causal defect.