Investigating the impact of ketogenic diets

Elife. 2024 Oct 18:13:e103140. doi: 10.7554/eLife.103140.

Abstract

Exposure to ketone bodies in early development can reduce neurological impairments in a strain of the nematode C. elegans with PTEN defects.

Keywords: C. elegans; GABA; brain development; developmental biology; ketone bodies; neurodevelopment; neuroscience.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins / genetics
  • Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins / metabolism
  • Caenorhabditis elegans* / physiology
  • Diet, Ketogenic*
  • Ketone Bodies / metabolism
  • PTEN Phosphohydrolase / genetics
  • PTEN Phosphohydrolase / metabolism

Substances

  • Ketone Bodies
  • Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
  • PTEN Phosphohydrolase