Metabolic agents that enhance ATP can improve cognitive functioning: A review of the evidence for glucose, oxygen, pyruvate, creatine, and L-carnitine

Nutrients

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 735-755

  Owen, Lauren ^a   Sunram Lea, Sandra I ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cognition; Creatine; Glucose; L carnitine; Metabolic agents; Oxygen; Pyruvate

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARNITINE; CREATINE; GLUCOSE; OXYGEN; PYRUVIC ACID;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN FUNCTION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; COGNITION; DIARRHEA; ENERGY METABOLISM; EPIGENETICS; EXCITOTOXICITY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; GLYCOGEN SYNTHESIS; GLYCOGENOLYSIS; GLYCOLYSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGENATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH DISEASE; TRANSGENE;

EID: 80052061724     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu3080735     Document Type: Review

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