A ketogenic diet increases succinic dehydrogenase activity in aging cardiomyocytes: Potential protective role against apoptosis-induced heart failure

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1171, Issue , 2009, Pages 377-384

  Balietti, Marta ^a   Fattoretti, Patrizia ^a   Giorgetti, Belinda ^a   Casoli, Tiziana ^a   Di Stefano, Giuseppina ^a   Solazzi, Moreno ^a   Platano, Daniela ^b   Aicardi, Giorgio ^b   Bertoni Freddari, Carlo ^a  

^a INRCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Apoptosis; Atrophy; Heart; Ketogenic diet; Mitochondria; Succinic dehydrogenase

Indexed keywords

MEDIUM CHAIN TRIACYLGLYCEROL; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; CELL AGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HEART PROTECTION; KETOGENIC DIET; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 69149088651     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04704.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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