Rapid adaptation of rat brain and liver metabolism to a ketogenic diet: An integrated study using 1 H- and 13 C-NMR spectroscopy

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1154-1162

  Roy, Maggie ^a   Beauvieux, Marie Christine ^b   Naulin, Jérôme ^b   El Hamrani, Dounia ^b   Gallis, Jean Louis ^a   Cunnane, Stephen C ^a   Bouzier Sore, Anne Karine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b University Bordeaux   (France)

Author keywords

13C glucose; 13C hydroxybutyrate; astrocyte; epilepsy; ketogenic diet; neuron; NMR spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; KETONE BODY;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; DIET THERAPY; EPILEPSY; KETOGENIC DIET; LIVER; MALE; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMINO ACIDS; AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EPILEPSY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; KETOGENIC DIET; KETONE BODIES; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84934444202     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2015.29     Document Type: Article

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