The nerve-heart connection in the pro-oxidant response to Mg-deficiency.

"Animal models of MgD [Magnesium deficiency] have demonstrated a systemic pro-inflammatory/pro-oxidant state, involving multiple tissues/organs including neuronal, hematopoietic, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal systems; during later stages of MgD, a cardiomyopathy develops which may result from a cascade of inflammatory events."

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