The ketogenic diet and epilepsy: Is adenosine the missing link?

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 332-333

  Masino, Susan A ^a   Geiger, Jonathan D ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE A1 RECEPTOR; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

BRAIN CORTEX; CELL METABOLISM; DIET THERAPY; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; KETOGENIC DIET; LETTER; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ADENOSINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN; CHILD; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; EPILEPSY, GENERALIZED; GLUCOSE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; HUMANS; KETOGENIC DIET; OBSERVER VARIATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SACCHARIN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 58849156857     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01771.x     Document Type: Letter

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