Magnesium and glucose homeostasis

Role of Magnesium in the Regulation of Hepatic Glucose Homeostasis

Calcium and Magnesium Homeostasis

Magnesium homeostasis and aging.

Aging is very often associated with magnesium (Mg) deficit. Total plasma magnesium concentrations are remarkably constant in healthy subjects throughout life, while total body Mg and Mg in the intracellular compartment tend to decrease with age. Dietary Mg deficiencies are common in the elderly population. Other frequent causes of Mg deficits in the elderly include reduced Mg intestinal absorpt...

Magnesium homeostasis and alcohol consumption.

Clinical and experimental evidence indicates alcohol consumption as one of the major causes of magnesium loss from several tissues. As a result of this loss, serum magnesium tends to decrease while urinary magnesium excretion increases 2-3 fold. Experimental data confirm that chronic consumption of 6% ethanol in the Lieber De-Carli diet for 3 weeks results in a marked decrease in total tissue m...

Mysteries of magnesium homeostasis.

In this issue of Circulation Research, Romani and colleagues1 report that insulin stimulates uptake of ionized magnesium (Mg) into heart. This study is the latest in a series by Romani, Scarpa, and colleagues regarding hormoneregulated Mg fluxes in heart and liver (References 1 and 2 and references therein). Over the past several decades, we have begun to uncover the mysteries of how cytosolic ...