Month: May 2021

• A ketogenic diet increases the brain glucose uptake mechanism

  When looking into acetoacetone uptake by the brain, I bumped against the following article. I don’t have full access but the abstract showed me the following: Similar trends were observed for (18)FDG uptake with a 1.9-2.6 times increase on the KD and F(asting), respectively (P < 0.05). FDG -> radiolabeled glucose such as used to trace…

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  19 May 2021

  Geen categorie

  astrocytes, blood brain barrier, GLUT1, ketogenic diet, lactate