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The ketogenic diet inhibits epileptogenesis in EL mice: a genetic model for idiopathic epilepsy.
Epilepsia - 1 Aug 2000
Todorova M T, Tandon P, Madore R A, Stafstrom C E, Seyfried T N
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate and -protein diet that has been used to treat refractory seizures in children for more than 75 years. However, little is known about how the KD inhibits seizures or its effects on epileptogenesis. Several animal models of epilepsy have responded favorably to KD treatment, but the KD has not been studied in animals with a genetic predisposition to...
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