Magnesium in Development and Aging

Dear Colleagues,

Development and aging represent the two extremes of life, both driven by programmed molecular mechanisms and environmental conditions, including nutrition. Network analyses highlight a link between the genetics of aging and development in mammals.

Albeit it is the forgotten cation, magnesium is indispensable for metabolism, stabilization of macromolecules, and many physiological processes, including growth and differentiation. In reflecting on the centrality of magnesium, it should be recalled that it plays a number of important roles: in inflammation, in the complex process involved in aging, as well as in forming the embryonic stem cell niche and the maternal–fetal interface. Moreover, the impairment of magnesium homeostasis contributes to several diseases, some of which are associated with aging.

This Special Issue calls for papers that, in particular, report novel findings associated with magnesium, development, metabolism and aging

Prof. Sara Castiglioni
Dr. Alessandra Cazzaniga
Dr. Laura Locatelli
Guest Editors

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