Hypomagnesemia in Cats
 
Hypomagnesium is a clinical disorder in which the body is suffering from a deficiency in magnesium. Magnesium is second only to potassium as the most abundant substance in the cells. Most is found in the bone (60 percent) and soft tissue (38 percent), and most of the soft tissue magnesium resides in the skeletal muscle and liver. Magnesium is required for many metabolic functions, it is an activator or catalyst for more than 300 enzyme systems, including enzymes that involve adenose triphosphat (ATP), which transports chemical energy within the cells for metabol ...read more