Article
Ketogenic diet improves motor performance but not cognition in two mouse models of Alzheimer's pathology.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Brownlow Milene L, Benner Leif, D'Agostino Dominic, Gordon Marcia N, Morgan Dave
Abstract excerpt
Dietary manipulations are increasingly viewed as possible approaches to treating neurodegenerative diseases. Previous studies suggest that Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients present an energy imbalance with brain hypometabolism and mitochondrial deficits. Ketogenic diets (KDs), widely investigated in the treatment and prevention of seizures, have been suggested to bypass metabolic deficits present in AD brain by...
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