The 20th International Taurine Meeting Taurine and Brain Health program and abstracts may 23-27, 2016 The Plaza Hotel Seoul, korea by the Organizing Committee of the 20

Taurine and Brain Health II

Chairperson: Werner Kilb (University Medical Center Mainz, Germany) & Eun Bang Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)

14:00 - 14:35 Lecture 6

Properties of taurine transport in slices from the adult and developing mouse brain

Simo S. Oja¹, O. Sakari Oja², Pirjo Saransaari¹

¹Tampere University Medical School,²Evince Ldt, Tampere, Finland

14:35 - 15:10 Lecture 7

Effects of taurine supplementation on brain excitability and glucose homeostasis

Abdeslem El Idrissi and Francoise Sidime

College of Staten Island of the City University of New York, United States

15:10 - 15:35 Oral Presentation 9

Protection of taurine against impairment in learning and memory in mice exposed to arsenic

Huai Guan¹, Shuangyue Li², Cong Zhang³, Shang Zhou⁴, Fengyuan Piao²*

¹Department of Health Administration, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning 116044, P. R. China
²Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning 116044, P. R. China;

³Department of Nutritionand Food Safety, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning 116044, China

15:35 – 15:55 Coffee Break

15:55 - 17:30 Session VII