Ketogenic diet protects against epileptogenesis as well as neuronal loss in amygdaloid-kindling seizures

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 508, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-26

  Jiang, Yan ^a   Yang, Yi ^a   Wang, Shuang ^a   Ding, Yao ^a   Guo, Yi ^a   Zhang, Man Man ^a   Wen, Shu Qun ^a   Ding, Mei Ping ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amygdaloid kindling; Antiepileptogenesis; Beta hydroxybutyrate; Ketogenic diet; Neuroprotection; Seizures

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; INCIDENCE; KETOGENIC DIET; KINDLING; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STAGING;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KETOGENIC DIET; KETOSIS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SEIZURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855935970     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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