I. Introduction.- Magnesium: An Introduction to its Supramolecular Chemistry and Biology.- Neurodegenerative Diseases and Magnesium Status.- II. Biology-Chemistry-Analytical.- Secretagogue-Evoked Magnesium and Calcium Transport in Mouse Pancreatic Acinar Cells.- Extracellular Mg2+ Effects Intracellular Signalling Processes and Acid Secretion in Rat Parietal Cells.- Characterization of Magnesium Transport from Rat, Pig, Cow and Human Erythrocytes.- Chemical Aspects of Heterogeneous Mg-Containing Apatites.- FT-IR Studies of Propofol-Magnesium Interactions.- Magnesium Ions -Guanosine-5'-Monophosphate Complexes: A Spectroscopy Study.- Supramolecular Mg(II) Complexes of Cytosine and 1-Methylcytosine.- Synthesis and NMR Spectroscopic Studies of a New Magnesium Antibiotic Compound.- Spectrophotometric Determination of Magnesium in Serum Using Xylidyl Blue Reagent in Micellar Medium.- III. Toxicology.- Influence of Four Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (Naproxen, Tolmetin, Tolfenamic Acid and Voltaren) and one Antibiotic (Monensin) on Magnesium Concentrations in Guinea Pig or Rat Tissues.- Influence of Inositolhexaphosphoric Acid (Phytic Acid) on the Distribution and the Excretion of Magnesium in Rat Tissues.- Changes of Magnesium Concentrations in Rat Tissues after the Administration of Drugs Used in Hypertension Therapy.- Magnesium in Rabbits Submitted to Prolonged Lead or Cadmium Intoxication.- Influence of Norfloxacin on Magnesium Concentrations in Rat Tissues and Urine.- IV. Agriculture.- Magnesium Ligands in Ileal Digesta of Piglets Fed Skim Milk and Soybean Flour.- Magnesium Ions Hinder the Growth of Coleoptyl in Deuterium Depleted Water.- The Effect of Deuterium Depleted Medium on Plant Tumors.- Connection between the Magnesium Content of the Medium and the Growth of the Genetically Transformed Lobella Inflata.- V. Metabolism.- Magnesium in Liver Cirrhosis.- Atherogenic Lipid Fractions are Related to Free Magnesium Ion Status.- Magnesium and Oxidative Stress Status in Patients with Chronic Fatigue.- Self-Care Management for the Patients with Normomagnesemia Magnesium Deficiency.- Magnesium Metabolism and Physical Exercise in Humans.- In Vitro Effect of Glucose on Intralymphocyte Free Magnesium.- Serum Magnesium and Lipid Profile in Children with Controlled Insulin Depended Diabetes Mellitus.- Magnesium in Thermoregulation.- Interrelations between Magnesium and Tbars in Different Rat Tissues, after Administration of Ginseng.- Cholesterol Metabolism in Human Umpilical Arterial Endothelial Cells Cultured in Low Magnesium Media.- Childhood Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Magnesium Metabolism.- VI. Nutrition.- Effect of Nutrients on Calcium and Magnesium in Bone.- Magnesium and Calcium Contents in Reform Cereal Foods and Uptake of these Elements.- Magnesium in Digesta of Horses Fed Diets Containing Different Amounts of Phytate.- Influence of Different Dietary Magnesium and Calcium Intake Levels on the Behavior of 28Mg and Magnesium in Mice.- Dietary Magnesium Intake in French Adult Population.- Growth Check and Magnesium Imbalance on Young Rats by over Intakes of Calcium.- VII. Cardiovascular Diseases.- Neuropeptides, Free Radical Stress and Antioxidants in Models of Mg-Deficient Cardiomyopathy.- The Diuretic-Magnesium Question in Heart Failure.- Minding Magnesium while Treating Essential Hypertension with Diurectics.- Diuretics and Magnesium: Clinical Pharmacology in Healthy Subjects.- Alterations of Serum Magnesium under Chronic Therapy with Diuretics and/or Angiotensin - Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in Hypertensive Patients.- Cardiac Arrhythmias in Magnesium Deficiency. Studies on Rat Model.- Hypomagnesemia in Long QT Syndrome.- Effect of Metabolic Inhibitors and Ischaemia on Contractile Force and Magnesium Efflux in the Isolated Perfused Rat Heart.- The Influence of Mg2+ and Zn2+ on Vascular Effect of Angiotensine Conversion Enzyme Inhibitors.- A Unique Non-Invasive Intracellular Magnesium Assay Correlating with Cardiac Tissues, Arrhythmias, and Therapeutic Intervention.- Physiological and Pharmacological Role of Magnesium in Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Magnesium in Acute Myocardial Infarction (the MAMI Study): Effect of Early Versus Late Magnesium Administration on Ck-Levels.- Changes in Platelet, Erythrocyte and Plasma Magnesium Levels in Normotensive and Hypertensive Obeses during Oral Glucose Tolerance Test.- The Role of Magnesium: A Natural Calcium Antagonist in the Treatment of Acute Ischaemic Stroke.- Does Cardiac Ischemia Induce Lowering of Blood Ionized Magnesium Level in Patients?.- Effect of Ouabain on the Behavior of 28Mg in the Mice Myocardium.- Experimental and Clinical Controversies in the Antiischemic and Antiarrhythmic Effects of Magnesium Sulfate.- Influence of Magnesium on the Aortic Vasorelaxation in Adult and Old Rats. Magnesium Age and Vasorelaxation.- The Use of Magnesium Preparations - Kormagnesin and Magnerot in Cardiological Practice.- Serum and Erythrocyte Magnesium in Patients with Unstable Angina Pectoris during and in the Absence of Crisis.- Relationship between Magnesium Parameters, Lipid Profile and Peroxidation Levels in Healthy Children.- VIII. Renal.- Association between Magnesium and Hypertension: Speculation or Fact?.- Does Serum Magnesium Concentration Prevent Mitral Annular Calcification in Hemodialysis Patients?.- Furosemide-Like Natriuretic Actions of Genistein without Effects on Magnesiuresis.- Platelet, Erythrocyte and Plasma Magnesium Levels in Renal Transplant Recipients during Cyclosporin or Azathioprine Treatment.- IX. Immunology.- Magnesium, Inflammation and Pain.- Increased Apoptosis and Free Radical Production in Thymus of Magnesium- Deficient Rats: Implications to Enhanced Thymus Involution and Immunity.- Magnesium Deficiency Enhances Immune Stress Response in Rats: A Cellular Approach.- Effect of Magnesium Administration on Proliferation and Differentiation of Lymphocytes.- X. Miscellaneous.- Magnesium Physiopathology. The Portugese Research.- A Comparative Study of Serum Mg++, Ca++, Cholesterol and Tryglycerides Levels during Total Intravenous Anaesthesia with Propofol Versus Thiopentone/N2O Anaesthesia.- Effects of Magnesium on Spermiogenesis.- Correlation between Human Semen Mg and Hydroxyl Radical Levels and Human Spermiogram.- The Effect of the Addition of Magnesium on the Weight Gain of Heifers and on Fertility Performance and Service Period of Heifers and Cows.- A New Method Development for the Mass Measurement of 26 29Mg and the Excited States Observation via the 12C(16O, 2p) 26Mg and 13C(18O, 2p) 29Mg Nuclear Heavy-Ion Reactions.- New data on the Scavenging Role of Preparation Tiomag in Antioxidant Therapy.- Effect of Mg Therapy on the outcome of Pregnancy in Certain Obstetric Diseases.- Protective Effects of Magnesium on Inner Ear Blood Flow in the Acoustic Trauma. Animal Studies.- Investigations on the Magnesium Status Marker in Humans. The Environmental Variability of the Magnesium Levels in the Hair, Plasma and Erythrocytes of School Children from Poland.- of Calcium, Magnesium, Zinc, Copper and Iron in Hair of Children and the Young.- Serum Magnesium Evolution as Related to Treatment in Patients with Lung Cancer.- XI. Late Papers.- Magnesium and Atherogenesis.- Vascular Diseases and Ionized Magnesium.- Influence of Magnesium on the Essential Oil Production in Chamomile Cultures.- Author Index.