MAGNESIUM RESEARCH: FROM BEGINNINGS TO TODAY.

MAGNESIUM RESEARCH: FROM BEGINNINGS TO TODAY.

Revista Magnesium Reserch – volume 17 ano 2004 número 3 páginas 163- 168.
 

Autores:

1)Jean Durlach – SDRM, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.

2)Nicole Pagés – Laboratoire de Toxicologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Strasbourg, 67400 Illkirch-
    Grafenstaden, France.

3)Pierre Bac – Laboratoire de Pharmacologie, Faculté de Pharmacie,Paris XI,  92290 Chatenay – Malabary
    France.

4)Michel Bara – Laboratoire de Physiologie et Pathologie, UPMC, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.

5)André Guiet-Bara - Laboratoire de Physiologie et Pathologie, UPMC, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.


Summary:

The beginnings of magnesium research, from the 18th century to the first quarter of the twentieth century, consists mainly of the development of the chemical and pharmacological knowledge. The modern period began in the 1926 when the essential character of magnesium was acknowlwdged.
The early part of the modern period, up tp the 1960s, saw the foundation of our knowledge of the basic physiological and clinical aspects.
The present modern period began in 1971 with the First International Symposium on Magnesium and the subsequent creation of SDRM (The international Society for the Development of Research on Magnesium), an internationalcoordinating structure, which promotes the publication of magnesium books (volume of proceedings and monographs) and journals: Magnesium Research the internation official organ of SDRM and several national journals: The journal of Elementology  (Poland) and which regularly organizes national and international meetings. The next great international meeting will be held on October 23-26, 2006 in Osaka (Japan). We will discuss the latest research findings on magnesium in health and disease. The subject shows that today magnesium research remains active in basic sciences embraces all the facets of pathology.