Table 3.  Correlation coefficients between taurine and each pyruvate precursor amino acid following taurine supplementation for 3 weeks.
 

Thr

Ser

Gly

Ala

GC-W

-.476 *

-.477 *

-.482 *

-.144

GC-R

-.530 *

-.254

-.847 **

-.033

Plantaris

-.791 **

-.612 **

-.882 **

-.090

Liver

-.168

-.151

-.300

-.070

Plasma

.171

.211

.212

.348

Footnote: *, p < 0.05; **, p < 0.01 for correlations with taurine concentration analyzed by Pearson’s correlation coefficient. See footnote in Table 2 for abbreviations.