Calorie-restricted ketogenic diet increases thresholds to all patterns of pentylenetetrazol-induced seizures: Critical importance of electroclinical assessment

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 320-328

  Raffo, Emmanuel ^a,b   François, Jennifer ^a   Ferrandon, Arielle ^a   Koning, Estelle ^a   Nehlig, Astrid ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HÔPITAL D ENFANTS   (France)

Author keywords

Calorie restriction; EEG; Ketogenic diet; Pentylenetetrazol; Seizure

Indexed keywords

PENTETRAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BETA HYDROXYBUTYRATE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD LEVEL; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLONIC SEIZURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INDUCED SEIZURE; ELECTROCLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; KETOGENIC DIET; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MEASUREMENT; MYOCLONUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SPIKE WAVE; THERAPY EFFECT; TONIC SEIZURE;

3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY FATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENERGY INTAKE; EPILEPSY; KETOSIS; MALE; PENTYLENETETRAZOLE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 38649105197     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01380.x     Document Type: Article

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