Caloric restriction augments brain gluta
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Clara M. Cheng; Kristin Hicks; Jie Wang; Douglas A. Eagles; Carolyn A. Bondy
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The ketogenic diet is a very lowβcarbohydrate, highβfat diet used to treat refractory epilepsy. We hypothesized that this diet may act by increasing expression of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), the rateβlimiting enzyme in Ξ³βaminobutyric acid (GABA) synthesis. Thus, we evaluated brai