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Brain Glutathione Increase and Seizure Burden Decrease in Patients with Intractable Epilepsy on Ketogenic Diet
2022-05-13
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background and Purpose</bold>: Ketogenic diet (KD) improves seizure control in patients with drug-resistant forms of epilepsy; however, the mechanism of action remains poorly understood. Increased mitochondrial levels of glutathione (GSH) might contribute to a change in seizure susceptibility suggestive of possible anticonvulsant role for GSH. Our goals were to quantify changes of...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5b550b2f-7537-55da-8368-b5b7d6e7ea96
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1627302/v1
