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Automatically associated channels: Kir6.2

Title: Need rods? Get glycine receptors and taurine.

Authors: René C Rentería, Juliette Johnson, David R Copenhagen

Journal, date & volume: Neuron, 2004 Mar 25 , 41, 839-41

PubMed link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15046714

Abstract
Taurine, a multifunctional amino acid prevalent in developing nervous tissues, regulates the number of rod photoreceptors in developing postnatal rodent retina. In this issue of Neuron, Young and Cepko show that taurine acts via GlyRalpha2 subunit-containing glycine receptors expressed by retinal progenitor cells at birth.