{"id":1445610,"date":"2021-01-30T14:51:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T13:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-wp-int.laboklin.com\/products\/haematology-clin-chemistry-endocrinology\/clinical-chemistry\/substrates\/taurine\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:39:53","slug":"taurine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/fi\/products\/haematology-clin-chemistry-endocrinology\/clinical-chemistry\/substrates\/taurine\/","title":{"rendered":"Taurine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<h3 class=\"csc-firstHeader\">Taurine (incl. Methionine)<\/h3><p><span>LABOKLIN Service ID: 2030<\/span><\/p><p class=\"bodytext\"><br>Chronic taurine deficiency causes dilatative cardiomyopathy in cats. In general, most commercial diets contain sufficient amounts of taurine. Taurine deficiency may be caused by chronic absorption disturbance or by homemade rations.<\/p><table class=\"tx-laboklinleistung-table contenttable contenttable-2\" style=\"margin-top: 35px;\"><tr><td class=\"td-0\"><strong>Material<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"td-1\"><p class=\"bodytext\">EDTA plasma 1 ml (immediately centrifuged, pipetted off)<ul><li>Please pay attention to the note \u2013 country-specific! \u2013 on the submission form regarding the <strong>temperature<\/strong> during storage\/transport!)<\/li><\/ul><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"td-0\"><strong>Method<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"td-1\"><p class=\"bodytext\">LCMS<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"td-0\"><strong>Species list<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"td-1\"><p class=\"bodytext\">Dog, cat<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"td-0\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"td-1\"><p class=\"bodytext\">2\u20136 working days<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"td-0\"><strong>Remark<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"td-1\"><p class=\"bodytext\"><ul><li>When determining taurine levels, the methionine concentration is also measured.<\/li><li>Methionine is an essential amino acid and acts as a precursor for the synthesis of taurine.<\/li><li>The interpretation of methionine concentrations should always be considered in conjunction with taurine status and other clinical and cardiac findings.<\/li><\/ul><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/table>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1651829960683{margin-top: 30px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1651829960683{margin-top: 30px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1443808,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1445610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1445610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1445610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536169,"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1445610\/revisions\/1536169"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1443808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}