KETOGENIC DIET | Anticonvulsant Mechanisms of a Ketogenic Diet

Encyclopedia of Basic Epilepsy Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 681-687

  Bough, K J ^a   Dingledine, R ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticonvulsant; Antiepileptic; Electron microscopy; Electrophysiology; GABAergic inhibition; Hippocampus; Ketogenic diet; Metabolism; Microarray; Mitochondrial biogenesis; Rat; Seizure threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255137845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373961-2.00030-8     Document Type: Chapter

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