The ketogenic diet increases brain glucose and ketone uptake in aged rats: A dual tracer PET and volumetric MRI study

Brain Research

Volumn 1488, Issue , 2012, Pages 14-23

  Roy, Maggie ^a,b   Nugent, Scott ^a,b   Tremblay Mercier, Jennifer ^a   Tremblay, Sébastien ^b,c   Courchesne Loyer, Alexandre ^a,b   Beaudoin, Jean François ^b,c   Tremblay, Luc ^b,c   Descoteaux, Maxime ^b,c   Lecomte, Roger ^b,c   Cunnane, Stephen C ^a,b  

^a Research Center on Aging   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

11C acetoacetate; 18F FDG PET; Aged rat; IRM; Ketogenic diet; Ketone

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCOSE; KETONE; LACTIC ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; KETOGENIC DIET; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; KETOGENIC DIET; KETONES; KETOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS;

EID: 84869095794     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.10.008     Document Type: Article

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