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ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology2010

Short-term magnesium deficiency upregulates sphingomyelin synthase and p53 in cardiovascular tissues and cells: relevance to the de novo synthesis of ceramide.

Burton M Altura, Nilank C Shah, Zhiqiang Li, Xian-Cheng Jiang, Aimin Zhang, Wenyan Li, Tao Zheng, Jose Luis Perez-Albela, Bella T Altura

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Article in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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  3. Potential Drug Targets for Ceramide Metabolism in Cardiovascular Disease.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2022
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  5. Role of Cellular Magnesium in Human Diseases.Austin journal of nutrition and food sciences · 2014
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  8. p53 and Ceramide as Collaborators in the Stress Response.International journal of molecular sciences · 2013
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9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Burton M AlturaDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, State University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA. baltura@downstate.edu.
Nilank C Shah
Zhiqiang Li
Xian-Cheng Jiang
Aimin Zhang
Wenyan Li
Tao Zheng
Jose Luis Perez-Albela
Bella T Altura
State University of New York · USInstitute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology · ITInstituto Nacional de Salud · PE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study tested the hypotheses that 1) short-term dietary deficiency of magnesium (21 days) in rats would result in the upregulation of sphingomyelin synthase (SMS) and p53 in cardiac and vascular (aortic) smooth muscles, 2) low levels of Mg(2+) added to drinking water would either prevent or greatly reduce the upregulation of both SMS and p53, 3) exposure of primary cultured vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) to low extracellular Mg(2+) concentration ([Mg(2)](o)) would lead to the de novo synthesis of ceramide, 4) inhibition of either SMS or p53 in primary culture VSMCs exposed to low [Mg(2+)](o) would lead to reductions in the levels of de novo ceramide synthesis, and 5) inhibition of sphingomyelin palmitoyl-CoA transferase (SPT) or ceramide synthase (CS) in primary cultured VSMCs exposed to low [Mg(2+)](o) would lead to a reduction in the levels of de novo ceramide synthesis. The data indicated that short-term magnesium deficiency (10% normal dietary intake) resulted in the upregulation of SMS and p53 in both ventricular and aortic smooth muscles; even very low levels of water-borne Mg(2+) (e.g., 15 mg·l(-1)·day(-1)) either prevented or ameliorated the upregulation in SMS and p53. Our experiments also showed that VSMCs exposed to low [Mg(2+)](o) resulted in the de novo synthesis of ceramide; the lower the [Mg(2+)](o), the greater the synthesis of ceramide. In addition, the data indicated that inhibition of either SMS, p53, SPT, or CS in VSMCs exposed to low [Mg(2+)](o) resulted in marked reductions in the de novo synthesis of ceramide.

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AcyltransferasesAnimalsAortaCells, CulturedCeramidesCerebral ArteriesDisease Models, AnimalEnzyme InhibitorsFemaleMagnesium DeficiencyMaleMuscle, Smooth, VascularMyocardiumMyocytes, Smooth MuscleOxidoreductasesRatsAcyltransferasesCeramidesdihydroceramide desaturaseEnzyme InhibitorsOxidoreductasesphosphatidylcholine-ceramide phosphocholine transferaseTransferases (Other Substituted Phosphate Groups)Tumor Suppressor Protein p53

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PMID20935146
PMCPMC3774185
OpenAlexW2157694963

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