Research on the Mineral Magnesium

The following research abstracts are presented to reflect the findings of possible benefits from minerals as a dietary supplement and nutritional supplement. You will find more on the ionic magnesium page.

ALCOHOL

• Role of magnesium and calcium in alcohol-induced hypertension and strokes as probed by in vivo television microscopy, digital image microscopy, optical spectroscopy, 31P-NMR, spectroscopy and a unique magnesium ion-selective electrode

• Ethanol-induced contraction of cerebral arteries in diverse mammals and its mechanism of action

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS

• Aluminum Deposition in Central Nervous System of Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis from the Kii Peninsula of Japan

ARRHYTHMIA

• Magnesium in supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias

• Effect of intravenous magnesium sulfate on cardiac arrhythmias in critically ill patients with low serum ionized magnesium

• Ionic mechanisms of ischemia-related ventricular arrhythmias

• The antiarrhythmic effects of taurine alone and in combination with magnesium sulfate on ischemia/reperfusion arrhythmia

ASTHMA

• Intravenous magnesium sulfate in acute severe asthma not responding to conventional therapy

• Studies of the effects of inhaled magnesium on airway reactivity to histamine and adenosine monophosphate in asthmatic subjects

• Effect of inhaled magnesium sulfate on sodium metabisulfite-induced Bronchoconstriction in asthma

• Physicochemical characterization of nedocromil bivalent metal salt hydrates. 1. Nedocromil magnesium

• Frequently nebulized beta-agonists for asthma: effects on serum electrolytes

• The role of magnesium in the pathogenesis and therapy of bronchial asthma

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER

• Effect of dextroamphetamine and methylphenidate on calcium and magnesium concentration in hyperactive boys

• [Deficiency of certain trace elements in children with hyperactivity]

• [Level of magnesium in blood serum in children from the province of Rzesz'ow]

CEREBRAL

• Different effects of Mg²⁺ on endothelin-1- and 5-hydroxytryptamine- elicited responses in goat cerebrovascular bed

CONSTIPATION

• Therapeutic availability of iron administered orally as the ferrous gluconate together with magnesium-L-aspartate hydrochloride

• Comparison of the effects of magnesium hydroxide and a bulk laxative on lipids, carbohydrates, vitamins A and E, and minerals in geriatric hospital patients in the treatment of constipation

DIABETES

• Magnesium and potassium in diabetes and carbohydrate metabolism. Review of the present status and recent results

• Magnesium and carbohydrate metabolism

• Disorders of magnesium metabolism

• Magnesium and glucose homeostasis

• Rationales for micronutrient supplementation in diabetes

FIBROMYALGIA

• Magnesium Deficiency in fibromyalgia syndrome

HEART-RELATED

• Concentrations of magnesium, calcium, potassium, and sodium in human heart muscle after acute myocardial infarction

• Magnesium flux during and after open heart operations in children

• Magnesium content of erythrocytes in patients with vasospastic angina

• Variant angina due to deficiency of intracellular magnesium

• Magnesium and sudden death

• Magnesium deficiency produces spasms of coronary arteries: Relationship to etiology of sudden death ischemic heart disease

• Magnesium deficiency produces insulin resistance and increased thromboxane synthesis

• Mg²⁺-Ca²⁺ interaction in contractility of vascular smooth muscle: Mg²⁺ versus organic calcium channel blockers on myogenic tone and agonist-induced responsiveness of blood vessels

• The case for intravenous magnesium treatment of arterial disease in general practice: Review of 34 years of experience

• [Overview--suppression effect of essential trace elements on arteriosclerotic development and its mechanism]

HIV

• Micronutrient profiles in HIV-1-infected heterosexual adults

HYPERTENSION

• Relationship of magnesium intake and other dietary factors to blood pressure: the Honolulu heart study

• Hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and insulin resistance: the role of intracellular magnesium

• Effect of dietary magnesium supplementation on intralymphocytic free calcium and magnesium in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats

KIDNEY STONES

• Kidney stone clinic: Ten years of experience

• Magnesium in the physiopathology and treatment of renal calcium stones

• Urinary factors of kidney stone formation in patients with Crohn's disease

• Urothelial injury to the rabbit bladder from various alkaline and acidic solutions used to dissolve kidney stones

MENOPAUSE

• Effect of vitamin B-6 on plasma and red blood cell magnesium levels in premenopausal women

• Effect of a natural and artificial menopause on serum, urinary and erythrocyte magnesium

• Calcium, phosphorus and magnesium intakes correlate with bone mineral content in postmenopausal women

MIGRAINE

• Pathogenesis of posttraumatic headache and migraine: a common headache pathway?

• Magnesium taurate and fish oil for prevention of migraine

• Prophylaxis of migraine with oral magnesium: results from a prospective, multi-center, placebo-controlled and double-blind randomized study

• Electromyographical ischemic test and intracellular and extracellular magnesium concentration in migraine and tension-type headache patients

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

• Magnesium concentration in plasma and erythrocytes in MS

• Magnesium concentration in brains from multiple sclerosis patients

• Experimental and clinical studies on dysregulation of magnesium metabolism and the aetiopathogenesis of multiple sclerosis

• The susceptibility of the centrocecal scotoma to electrolytes, especially in multiple sclerosis

OSTEOPOROSIS

• Magnesium deficiency: Possible role in osteoporosis associated with gluten-sensitive enteropathy

• Magnesium supplementation and osteoporosis

PMS - PRE-MENSTRUAL SYNDROME

• Plasma copper, zinc and magnesium levels in patients with premenstrual tension syndrome

• Oral magnesium successfully relieves premenstrual mood changes

• Magnesium and the premenstrual syndrome

RHUEMATOID ARTHRITIS

• Nutrient intake of patients with rheumatoid arthritis is deficient in pyridoxine, zinc, copper, and magnesium

• Bloodplasma, erythrocyte and leukocyte zinc, copper, and magnesium of patients with rheumatoid arthritis

GENERAL

• Magnesium sulfate therapy in certain emergency conditions

• Magnesium metabolism in health and disease

• Comparative findings on serum IMg²⁺ of normal and diseased human subjects with the NOVA and KONE ISE's for Mg²⁺

• Magnesium hormonal regulation and metabolic interrelations

• Thymic changes in the magnesium-depleted rat

  

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