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 for Energy Production and Muscle

Chairperson Shigeru Murakami (Fukui Prefectural University, Japan) & Kyung Soon Choi (Sahmyook University, Korea)

10:35 - 11:10 Lecture 10

The taurine deficient heart is energy deficient

Stephen Schaffer¹, Kayoko Shimada-Takaura¹, Chian Ju Jong¹, Takashi Ito², Kyoko Takahashi³

¹Department of Pharmacology, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, AL, USA
²School of Pharmacy, Hyogo University of Health Sciences, Kobe, Japan
³Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

11:10 - 11:35 Oral Presentation 14

The role of N-acetyltaurine on the normalization of energy metabolism balance in the skeletal muscle after endurance exercise

Teruo Miyazaki¹, YuhoNakamura², KeiEbina², TakakiMizushima², Song-GyuRa³, KeisukeIshikura⁴, YasushiMatsuzaki¹, HajimeOhmori², Akira Honda<sup>1

1</sup>Tokyo Medical University Ibaraki Medical Center, Ibaraki, Japan, ²University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, ³Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan, and ⁴Sojo University, Kumamoto, Japan.

11:35 - 12:00 Oral Presentation 15

The effect of maternal taurine supplementation on gestational protein restriction in newborn skeletal muscle in Wistar rats

Lea Hüche Larsen, Sofie Sandø-Pedersen, Laura Kofoed Hvidsten Ørstrup, Niels Grunnet, Bjørn Quistorff and Ole Hartvig Mortensen

Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch at Maple Hall

13:00 – 17:30 Dong-A Socio Holdings &Suwon Hwaseong

Visiting Dong-A Socio Holdings Research Institute (1 hr)

Tour in Suwon: Suwon Hwaseong (UNESCO Culture, 40 min)

17:30 – 20:00 Farewell Party at Han River Restaurant (Chavit Cuisine)

Friday, May 27 (Maple Hall, 4F)

9:00 - 10:00 Session X