Long-term effects of preweaning taurine injections in rats: interactions with strain and gender.
A comparison was made of MR, MNR, and RCA strains that had been injected with either 62.5 mg/kg of taurine or comparable volumes of physiological saline between postnatal Days 8 and 20 and later tested at 100 days of age in an open field and 1-way shock avoidance situations. Taurine-injected rats displayed significant elevation in defecation score in the open field. In addition a significant Treatment X Strain interaction was due to the larger defecation numbers displayed by the taurine-injected MR rats relative to the saline-injected MR rats.
D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning / Q000187:drug effects; D004644:Emotions / Q000187:drug effects; D005106:Exploratory Behavior / Q000187:drug effects; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D012737:Sex Factors; D013045:Species Specificity; D013654:Taurine / Q000494:pharmacology*
D013654:Taurine