Ketosis and brain handling of glutamate, glutamine, and GABA

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL. 8, 2008, Pages 73-75

  Yudkoff, Marc ^a,b   Daikhin, Yevgeny ^a   Horyn, Oksana ^a   Nissim, Ilana ^a   Nissim, Itzhak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain amino acid metabolism; GABA; Glutamic acid; Ketosis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYL COENZYME A; CITRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; OXALOACETIC ACID;

ASTROCYTE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; KETOACIDOSIS; KETOGENIC DIET; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; KETOGENIC DIET; KETOSIS;

EID: 55349091074     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01841.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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