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ArticleCardiovascular journal of Africa

Improvement of cardiac ventricular function by magnesium treatment in chronic streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat heart.

Hamida Aboalgasm, Morea Petersen, Asfree Gwanyanya

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Article in Cardiovascular journal of Africa. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 45% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hamida AboalgasmDepartment of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Morea PetersenDepartment of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Asfree GwanyanyaDepartment of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Email: asfree.gwanyanya@uct.ac.za.
University of Cape Town · ZA

Funding

National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa Grant No 91514South African Medical Research Council MRC, Grant No 29841
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveChronic diabetes mellitus is associated with detrimental cardiovascular complications and electrolyte imbalances such as hypomagnesaemia. We investigated the effect of magnesium (Mg

methodsWistar rats were treated once intraperitoneally with streptozotocin or citrate, and then daily with MgSO

resultsIn diabetic hearts, Mg

conclusionsMg

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AnimalsDiabetes Mellitus, ExperimentalHeartMagnesiumMyocytes, CardiacRatsRats, WistarStreptozocinVentricular FunctionMagnesiumStreptozocincardiacdiabetesmagnesiumstreptozotocinventricular function

Identifiers

PMID33300932
PMCPMC8756063
OpenAlexW3111352556

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