Magnesium Metabolism

Abstract

OVER the decade since this subject was last reviewed in the Journal ¹ much has been added to the knowledge of normal human magnesium metabolism and of its alteration in disease. This has ensued largely because of the advances made in the quantitative analysis of this element in biologic samples. A major step forward has been the successful use of flame methods to measure magnesium in body fluids and tissues. Application of the technics of emission spectroscopy led to the perfection of a multichannel flame spectrometer that gave precise and accurate determinations of the relatively small amounts of magnesium in serum, . . .