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Published in final edited form as: Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids. 2011 Jun 12;85(2):53–60. doi: 10.1016/j.plefa.2011.05.001

Table 4.

Effect of 30 days diet administrations on serum magnesium levels, body weight and behavioral activities.

	Normal magnesium diet	Diets rendered deficient in magnesium content

	NM commercial diet	MD MUFA diet	MD n-6PUFA diet	MD n-3PUFA diet
Serum magnesium (mg/ml)	21.52 ± 1.26	5.72 ± 0.4^*	5.70 ± 0.51^*	5.55 ± 0.43^*
Body weight (g)	25.3 ± 2.02	25.7 ± 1.58	26.1 ± 1.18	26.6 ± 0.88
Actimetry (number of crossings)	115.0 ± 28.6	134.3 ± 32.1^*	152.7 ± 37.9^*	97.0 ± 22.5^,^*
Rotarod^a	+	+	+	+

Note: abbreviations are NM, normal magnesium; MD, magnesium-deficient.

Rotarod: + means that the mice stood in equilibrium on the rotarod for 120 s in three separate trials.

p<0.05 (MD diet groups versus NM diet group).

^**

p<0.01 (MD n-3PUFA diet groups versus MD MUFA and MDn-6PUFA diet groups).