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Magnesium, Inflammation and Pain

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Magnesium: Current Status and New Developments

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The relationships between inflammation and pain were known for a long time, even by antique civilizations. However most of the fundamental knowledge about biological mechanisms explaining some of the links between inflammation and nociception processes have been discovered over the last three decades. Peripheral infection or injury can induce an inflammation and related pain but also some nerves, especially C fibers which are mainly involved in nociception transmission, can generate a so called “neurogenic inflammation”. New findings rise some questions about the role of magnesium (Mg) in these two phenomena.

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Dubray, C., Rayssiguier, Y. (1997). Magnesium, Inflammation and Pain. In: Theophanides, T., Anastassopoulou, J. (eds) Magnesium: Current Status and New Developments. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0057-8_63

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