Ketogenic diet and metabolic therapies : expanded roles in health and disease / / edited by Susan A. Masino

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910466143403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 0-19-049801-3; 0-19-049802-1; 0-19-049800-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (425 p.)
• Disciplina: 613.2/83
• Soggetti: Ketogenic diet; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Ketogenic Diet and Metabolic Therapies is the first comprehensive scientific resource on the ketogenic diet, covering the latest research including the biomedical mechanisms, established and emerging applications, metabolic alternatives, and implications for health and disease. Experts in clinical and basic research share their research into mechanisms spanning from ion channels to epigenetics, their insights based on decades of experience with the ketogenic diet in epilepsy, and their evidence for emerging applications ranging from autism to Alzheimer's disease to brain cancer. Research in me