CSF Amino Acids, Pterins and Mechanism of the Ketogenic Diet

J. Gordon Millichap

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-29-10-6

CSF Amino Acids, Pterins and Mechanism of the Ketogenic Diet

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 29 (2015): Issue 10

By: J. Gordon Millichap

Open Access

|Nov 2015

Abstract

Investigators from Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain, studied the relationship between the etiology of refractory childhood epilepsy, CSF neurotransmitters, pterins, and amino acids, and response to a ketogenic diet in 60 patients with refractory epilepsy, 83% focal and 52% idiopathic.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-29-10-6 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 79 - 79

Submitted on: Oct 28, 2015

Accepted on: Nov 5, 2015

Published on: Nov 17, 2015

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Ketogenic Diet,

Neurotransmitters,

Pterins

© 2015 J. Gordon Millichap, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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