Ketone Bodies Mediate Antiseizure Effects

Jena M. Krueger; Douglas R. Nordli

doi:10.15844/pedneurbriefs-29-9-2

Ketone Bodies Mediate Antiseizure Effects

Pediatric Neurology Briefs

Volume 29 (2015): Issue 9

By: Jena M. Krueger and Douglas R. Nordli

Open Access

|Oct 2015

Abstract

Investigators from The Barrow Neurological Institute, Creighton University, University of Kentucky and the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine investigated the effect of ketone bodies and the ketogenic diet on epileptic Kcna1-null mice.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-29-9-2 | Journal eISSN: 2166-6482

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Language: English

Page range: 67 - 67

Submitted on: Oct 4, 2015

Accepted on: Oct 9, 2015

Published on: Oct 11, 2015

Published by: Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

Ketogenic Diet,

Ketone Bodies,

Epilepsy

© 2015 Jena M. Krueger, Douglas R. Nordli, published by Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Volume 29 (2015): Issue 9