A definitive review in the field of magnesium research, this book brings together the proceedings of the 11th International Magnesium Symposium in Osaka, Japan from October 22-26, 2006. Written by authorities in the area, the book provides a thorough overview of progress in the area of magnesium research.

New Perspectives in Magnesium Research: Nutrition and Health provides new vistas on magnesium research in 2006. It comprises resports concerning the role of magnesium not only in physiology, chronobiology, nutrition, epidemiology, and internal medicine, particularly cardiology, neurology, rheumatology, gynecology, and nephrology, but also in stomatology, pharmagognosy, and veterinary medicine.

Contents

Overview

1. Overview of Magnesium Research: History and Current Trends
2. Magnesium and Calcium in Drinking Water

Magnesium Homeostasis

3. Cellular Mg2+ Transport and Homeostasis
4. TRPM6 and TRPM7 Chanzymes Essential for Magnesium Homeostasis
5. CorA-Mrs2-Alr1 Superfamily of Mg2+ Channel Proteins
6. Practical Interest of Circulating Total and Ionized Magnesium Concentration Evaluation in Experimental and Clinical Magnesium Disorders

Nutrition

7. Overview of Magnesium Nutrition
8. Magnesium Requirement and Affecting Factors
9. Experimental Data on Chronic Magnesium Deficiency
10. Clinical forms of Magnesium Depletion by Photosensitization and Treatment with Scototherapy
11. New Data on Pharmacological Properties and Indications of Magnesium

Epidemiology

12. Magnesium Intake and the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes
13. Magnesium Intake and Hepatic Cancer

Exercise

14. Exercise and Magnesium

Metabolic Syndrome

15. Review of Magnesium and Metabolic Syndrome
16. Diabetes Mellitus and Magnesium
17. Magnesium Metabolism in Insulin Resistance, Metabolic Syndrome, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Cardiovascular Disease

18. Cardiovascular Disease and Magnesium
19. Magnesium: Forgotten Mineral in Cardiovascular Biology and Atherogenesis

Skeletal Diseases and Calcium Metabolism

20. Overview of Skeletal Diseases and Calcium Metabolism in Relation to Magnesium
21. Magnesium and Osteoporosis
22. Calcium-Sensing Receptor and Magnesium

Kidney

23. Magnesium and the Kidney: Overview
24. Cellular Basis of Magnesium Transport
25. Magnesium in Chronic Renal Failure
26. Magnesium in Hemodialysis Patients

Neurology

27. Neurology Overview
28. Magnesium in the Central Nervous System

Magnesium in Dental Medicine

29. Tooth and Magnesium

Magnesium in Neurology and Psychiatry

30. Magnesium in Psychoses

Veterinary Medicine

31. Significance of Magnesium in Animals

Index

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