| Literature DB >> 19332336 |
Kirk Nylen1, Sergei Likhodii, W McIntyre Burnham.
Abstract
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet used to treat drug-resistant seizures, especially in children. A number of possible mechanisms of action have been proposed to explain the anticonvulsant effects of the diet. Four of these hypothetical mechanisms are discussed in the present article: the pH hypothesis, the metabolic hypotheses, the amino acid hypothesis, and the ketone hypothesis.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19332336 PMCID: PMC5084220 DOI: 10.1016/j.nurt.2009.01.021
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurotherapeutics ISSN: 1878-7479 Impact factor: 7.620