Effects of a ketogenic diet on hippocampal plasticity in freely moving juvenile rats

Physiological Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Blaise, J Harry ^a   Ruskin, David N ^a   Koranda, Jessica L ^a,b   Masino, Susan A ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Ketone bodies; Long term potentiation; Paired pulse ratio; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; HIPPOCAMPUS; KETOGENIC DIET; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEIZURE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84973877016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12411     Document Type: Article

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