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F Gaudin-Harding

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PubMed1983

[Changes in the suppressive activity of splenic lymphocytes of mice induced in vitro by sodium periodate during magnesium deficiency].

Male DBA/2 Mice were kept on a magnesium deficient diet or a control diet. The antibody response of spleen cells, after in vitro immunization with Sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was determined comparatively in the two groups of Mice, from the 19th to the 22nd day of the diet. The effect of sodium periodate treatment on the induction of in vitro antibody suppressor cells was also studies. This treatment activated suppressor cells towards anti-SRBC response in the control group, but not in the Mg-deficient group (P less than 0.002). A greater sensitivity of periodate induced T suppressor cells to Mg deficiency is suggested by the present results.

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PubMed1981

Effect of vitamin D deficiency on urinary excretion of connective tissue derivatives (hydroxyproline and glycosaminoglycans) in rats.

The urinary excretion of two connective tissue metabolites was studied in both control and vitamin D deficient rats. Hydroxyproline (HyPRO) excretion was determined after 2, 13 and 22 months (experiment I). It decreased with aging in animals receiving the control diet. On the contrary, this excretion increased as a function of age in vitamin D deficient animals. At the age of 22 months, HyPRO excretion was respectively 31 and 1708 micrograms a day in control and deficient animals. HyPRO and glycosaminoglycans (GAG) excretion was measured on a group of both control and vitamin D deficient rats at the age of 21 months (experiment II). These results confirm the high excretion of HyPRO in deficient animals. On the contrary, the GAG excretion was higher in control animals than in deficient ones, the mean excretion being respectively 412 and 234 micrograms a day.

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PubMed1981

Changes in histamine and white blood cells in the blood, spleen and thymus of magnesium-deficient rat.

Groups of rats were given either a control or a magnesium-deficient diet. The well-known allergy-like crisis, characterized by vasodilatation with redness of the ears and dermatosis, occurred spontaneously in the magnesium-deficient groups. The histamine (H) content and the distribution of the various white blood cells (WBC) were studied as a function of time. During the acute phase, there was a transitory elevation of total blood H and WBC, mainly affecting the polymorphonuclear (PMN) cells, eosinophils (EO) and basophils (BAS). The EO peak preceded that of H. The EO count was especially high during the first part of the acute phase, while H and BAS were higher during the second part of that phase. There were no BAS's in the blood of the controls and those in the Mg-deficient animals were only partly granulated. H, EO and mast cells (MC) were elevated in the spleen but not in the thymus during acute deficiency. The high H level in the spleen corresponded to the same high level in the blood. When the spleen suspensions were centrifuged, wide differences in supernatant and pellet histamine appeared, according to the deficiency period.

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PubMed1980

Aromatic amines (serotonin and histamine) and magnesium deficiency in the rat.

Rats were made deficient by giving a 4 mg Mg/100 g diet. The control diet content was 40 mg Mg/100 g. Serotonin injected to magnesium deficient and control rats was metabolized at the same rate in both groups and the urinary derivatives were similar. Serotonin catabolism can occur in liver as shown by isolated hepatocyte technique. Hyperemia of the ears and dermatosis appeared in magnesium deficient rats, while histaminemia rised. This allergy-like crisis was delayed and milder, when the food intake was reduced. The evolution of histaminemia was studied in parallel with the different white blood cells, during three periods of magnesium deficiency. An important rise of total white blood cells, specially poly morphonuclear and eosinophil cells was observed. The peak for eosinophils occured before the histaminemia and basophils peaks. Basophils cells found only in magnesium deficient group were partly degranualted.

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PubMed1980

Magnesium deficiency allergy-like crisis in hairless rats: a suggested model for inflammation studies.

Two groups of rats, one hairy and one hairless, received either a magnesium deficient diet (4 mg Mg/100 g diet) or a control diet (40 mg/100 g diet). After four days, an easily observable redness of the skin occurred in the hairless deficient group, progressing from the tail to the forehead, and later a hyperemia of the ear and dermatosis which increased with scratching appeared in both deficient groups. The clinical signs were more acute in the deficient hairless group. Histamine, total white blood cells and eosinophil counts increased in both deficient groups during the allergy-like crisis. Then, these factors tended to normal values. After three weeks on a diet an enlargement of the spleens was observed, but not of the thymus in both deficient groups. There was a large difference in the histamine content of the spleen between the deficient and control hairless groups: the values obtained were 4 350 ng and 166 ng per 100 g tissue respectively.

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PubMed1979

[Blood histamine and response of spleen cells to phytohemagglutinins during moderate magnesium deficiency in the rat].

Blood histamine and spleen cell stimulation index by PHA were determined in either magnesium deficient or control Rats. Between the 10th and 17th days of diet (hyperemia and dermatosis period), histaminemia was significantly higher in deficient animals (485 ng/ml) than in control ones (112 ng/ml), but at the 32nd day it came back to normal values. The mean spleen cell stimulation index by PHA was depressed in deficient animals mainly between the 10th and 17th day of the deficiency; 33% of control mean value. A negative correlation is found between histamine level and stimulation index.

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PubMed1978

Effect of magnesium deficiency and food restriction on the immune response in young mice.

Similar batches of five-week-old C57 Bl/6 mice were given either a magnesium-deficient diet (4mg Mg/100 g), or a control diet (40 mg/100 g). Control diet intake was either ad libitum or reduced. After immunization with SRBC (sheep red blood cells), the immune response was studied by estimating the number of spleen AFC (antibody-forming cells) capable of lysing SRBC, and by a cytoadhesion test to determine the number of RFC (rosette forming cells). Limitation of the control diet slowed the growth rate in mice. Whenever food intake was reduced from 4g/day to 2.9 or 2.6g/day, the AFC response intensified but the RFC response remained similar. Food limitation might therefore mainly affect immature IgM producing cells with a high dividing rate. Magnesium deficiency produced a drastic fall in the primary and secondary immune responses, as measured by the number of spleen AFC. The number RFC was also much lower in the spleen of deficient animals. Consequently, the spleen immune system is deeply affected by this deficiency.

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