INS and type 1 diabetes mellitus: Used as an analgesic, taurine has the important advantage that it is almost completely non-toxic and free of potentially dangerous side effects, except for patients with type 1 diabetes (because of a hypoglycaemic effect that possibly might be explained by taurine-induced enhancement of the sensitivity to insulin following its binding to the insulin receptor (659–661), and which might conceivably lead to the development of potentially dangerous hypoglycaemia following insulin injection).