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SUBMITTER: Garbow JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3119109 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garbow Joel R JR Doherty Jason M JM Schugar Rebecca C RC Travers Sarah S Weber Mary L ML Wentz Anna E AE Ezenwajiaku Nkiruka N Cotter David G DG Brunt Elizabeth M EM Crawford Peter A PA
American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology 20110331 6
Low-carbohydrate diets are used to manage obesity, seizure disorders, and malignancies of the central nervous system. These diets create a distinctive, but incompletely defined, cellular, molecular, and integrated metabolic state. Here, we determine the systemic and hepatic effects of long-term administration of a very low-carbohydrate, low-protein, and high-fat ketogenic diet, serially comparing these effects to a high-simple-carbohydrate, high-fat Western diet and a low-fat, polysaccharide-ric ...[more]