Magnesium: Current Status and New Developments: Theoretical, Biological and Medical Aspects (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

I. Introduction.- Magnesium: An Introduction to its Supramolecular Chemistry and Biology.- Neurodegenerative Diseases and Magnesium Status.- II. Biology-Chemistry-Analytical.- Secretagogue-Evoked Magnesium and Calcium Transport in Mouse Pancreatic Acinar Cells.- Extracellular Mg2+ Effects Intracellular Signalling Processes and Acid Secretion in Rat Parietal Cells.- Characterization of Magnesium Transport from Rat, Pig, Cow and Human Erythrocytes.- Chemical Aspects of Heterogeneous Mg-Containing Apatites.- FT-IR Studies of Propofol-Magnesium Interactions.- Magnesium Ions -Guanosine-5'-Monophosphate Complexes: A Spectroscopy Study.- Supramolecular Mg(II) Complexes of Cytosine and 1-Methylcytosine.- Synthesis and NMR Spectroscopic Studies of a New Magnesium Antibiotic Compound.- Spectrophotometric Determination of Magnesium in Serum Using Xylidyl Blue Reagent in Micellar Medium.- III. Toxicology.- Influence of Four Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (Naproxen, Tolmetin, Tolfenamic Acid and Voltaren) and one Antibiotic (Monensin) on Magnesium Concentrations in Guinea Pig or Rat Tissues.- Influence of Inositolhexaphosphoric Acid (Phytic Acid) on the Distribution and the Excretion of Magnesium in Rat Tissues.- Changes of Magnesium Concentrations in Rat Tissues after the Administration of Drugs Used in Hypertension Therapy.- Magnesium in Rabbits Submitted to Prolonged Lead or Cadmium Intoxication.- Influence of Norfloxacin on Magnesium Concentrations in Rat Tissues and Urine.- IV. Agriculture.- Magnesium Ligands in Ileal Digesta of Piglets Fed Skim Milk and Soybean Flour.- Magnesium Ions Hinder the Growth of Coleoptyl in Deuterium Depleted Water.- The Effect of Deuterium Depleted Medium on Plant Tumors.- Connection between the Magnesium Content of the Medium and the Growth of the Genetically Transformed Lobella Inflata.- V. Metabolism.- Magnesium in Liver Cirrhosis.- Atherogenic Lipid Fractions are Related to Free Magnesium Ion Status.- Magnesium and Oxidative Stress Status in Patients with Chronic Fatigue.- Self-Care Management for the Patients with Normomagnesemia Magnesium Deficiency.- Magnesium Metabolism and Physical Exercise in Humans.- In Vitro Effect of Glucose on Intralymphocyte Free Magnesium.- Serum Magnesium and Lipid Profile in Children with Controlled Insulin Depended Diabetes Mellitus.- Magnesium in Thermoregulation.- Interrelations between Magnesium and Tbars in Different Rat Tissues, after Administration of Ginseng.- Cholesterol Metabolism in Human Umpilical Arterial Endothelial Cells Cultured in Low Magnesium Media.- Childhood Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Magnesium Metabolism.- VI. Nutrition.- Effect of Nutrients on Calcium and Magnesium in Bone.- Magnesium and Calcium Contents in Reform Cereal Foods and Uptake of these Elements.- Magnesium in Digesta of Horses Fed Diets Containing Different Amounts of Phytate.- Influence of Different Dietary Magnesium and Calcium Intake Levels on the Behavior of 28Mg and Magnesium in Mice.- Dietary Magnesium Intake in French Adult Population.- Growth Check and Magnesium Imbalance on Young Rats by over Intakes of Calcium.- VII. Cardiovascular Diseases.- Neuropeptides, Free Radical Stress and Antioxidants in Models of Mg-Deficient Cardiomyopathy.- The Diuretic-Magnesium Question in Heart Failure.- Minding Magnesium while Treating Essential Hypertension with Diurectics.- Diuretics and Magnesium: Clinical Pharmacology in Healthy Subjects.- Alterations of Serum Magnesium under Chronic Therapy with Diuretics and/or Angiotensin - Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in Hypertensive Patients.- Cardiac Arrhythmias in Magnesium Deficiency. Studies on Rat Model.- Hypomagnesemia in Long QT Syndrome.- Effect of Metabolic Inhibitors and Ischaemia on Contractile Force and Magnesium Efflux in the Isolated Perfused Rat Heart.- The Influence of Mg2+ and Zn2+ on Vascular Effect of Angiotensine Conversion Enzyme Inhibitors.- A Unique Non-Invasive Intracellular Magnesium Assay Correlating with Cardiac