... magnesium content was related to the intensity of the symptoms. Highly depressed patients had the highest magnesium values. Today, we report the results of plasma and erythrocyte sodium and potassium, and of total and ultrafilterable plasma calcium in 66 hospitalized patients with major depression compared...

.... Significant differences are observed in patients for sex and between clinical subgroups. Low plasma potassium levels are described in both male and female depressed patients. The erythrocyte magnesium level tends to normalize in parallel with clinical improvement, depending on sex and clinical subgroup...

...Vendelin Olesen; Klaus Thomsen The effect of potassium against lithium intoxication was studied in two groups of rats given food containing 100 mmol of sodium and 100 or 1,100 mmol of potassium/kg dry weight. After 1 week 80 mmol of lithium chloride/kg dry weight was added to both diets. Four days...

... described effect on the fast sodium inward current, also modulates – presumably voltage-gated – calcium currents and the transient potassium outward current I D . These may be effective mechanisms to inhibit pathological excitation in epilepsy and may be of potential benefit in treating underlying cellular...