ArticleNeurobiology of aging2016
A ketogenic diet accelerates neurodegeneration in mice with induced mitochondrial DNA toxicity in the forebrain.
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- The microbiota-gut-brain axis in Huntington's disease: pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic targets.The FEBS journal · 2025Review
- The Role of a Ketogenic Diet in the Treatment of Dementia in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Hypothermia selectively protects the anterior forebrain mesocircuit during global cerebral ischemia.Neural regeneration research · 2022Article
- Effect of a Ketogenic Diet on Oxidative Posttranslational Protein Modifications and Brain Homogenate Denaturation in the Kindling Model of Epilepsy in Mice.Neurochemical research · 2022Article
- Role of ketone bodies in diabetes-induced dementia: sirtuins, insulin resistance, synaptic plasticity, mitochondrial dysfunction, and neurotransmitter.Nutrition reviews · 2022Review
- Dietary Alterations in Impaired Mitochondrial Dynamics Due to Neurodegeneration.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Alterations in the gut microbiota contribute to cognitive impairment induced by the ketogenic diet and hypoxia.Cell host & microbe · 2021Article
- A 1-Month Ketogenic Diet Increased Mitochondrial Mass in Red Gastrocnemius Muscle, but Not in the Brain or Liver of Middle-Aged Mice.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Ketogenic Diet Enhances the Cholesterol Accumulation in Liver and Augments the Severity of CClInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Increased occurrence of pathological mitochondria in astrocytic perivascular endfoot processes and neurons of idiopathic intracranial hypertension.Journal of neuroscience research · 2021Observational
- From Obesity to Hippocampal Neurodegeneration: Pathogenesis and Non-Pharmacological Interventions.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Current progress in the therapeutic options for mitochondrial disorders.Physiological research · 2020Article
- βOHB Protective Pathways in Aralar-KO Neurons and Brain: An Alternative to Ketogenic Diet.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Ketogenic Diets and Exercise Performance.Nutrients · 2019Review
- Ketogenic Diet in Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
- Ketogenic treatment reduces the percentage of a LHON heteroplasmic mutation and increases mtDNA amount of a LHON homoplasmic mutation.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2019Article
- Ketone Bodies in Neurological Diseases: Focus on Neuroprotection and Underlying Mechanisms.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Review
- A Ketogenic Diet Improves Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Bioenergetics via the PGC1α-SIRT3-UCP2 Axis.Neurochemical research · 2019Article
- Multi-dimensional Roles of Ketone Bodies in Fuel Metabolism, Signaling, and Therapeutics.Cell metabolism · 2017Review
- Metabolic dysfunction and mitochondrial failure in Alzheimer's disease: integrating pathophysiology, clinical evidence and emerging interventions.Frontiers in neurologyReview
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Abstract
Mitochondrial genome maintenance plays a central role in preserving brain health. We previously demonstrated accumulation of mitochondrial DNA damage and severe neurodegeneration in transgenic mice inducibly expressing a mutated mitochondrial DNA repair enzyme (mutUNG1) selectively in forebrain neurons. Here, we examine whether severe neurodegeneration in mutUNG1-expressing mice could be rescued by feeding the mice a ketogenic diet, which is known to have beneficial effects in several neurological disorders. The diet increased the levels of superoxide dismutase 2, and mitochondrial mass, enzymes, and regulators such as SIRT1 and FIS1, and appeared to downregulate N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptor subunits NR2A/B and upregulate γ-aminobutyric acid A (GABA
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