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The ketogenic diet increases brain glucose and ketone uptake in aged rats: A dual tracer PET and volumetric MRI study
The ketogenic diet increases brain glucose and ketone uptake in aged rats: A dual tracer PET and volumetric MRI study
- Source :
- Brain Research. 1488:14-23
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2012.
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Abstract
- Despite decades of study, it is still unclear whether regional brain glucose uptake is lower in the cognitively healthy elderly. Whether regional brain uptake of ketones (β-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate [AcAc]), the main alternative brain fuel to glucose, changes with age is unknown. We used a sequential, dual tracer positron emission tomography (PET) protocol to quantify brain (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) and (11)C-AcAc uptake in two studies with healthy, male Sprague-Dawley rats: (i) Aged (21 months; 21M) versus young (4 months; 4M) rats, and (ii) The effect of a 14 day high-fat ketogenic diet (KD) on brain (18)F-FDG and (11)C-AcAc uptake in 24 month old rats (24M). Similar whole brain volumes assessed by magnetic resonance imaging, were observed in aged 21M versus 4M rats, but the lateral ventricles were 30% larger in the 21M rats (p=0.001). Whole brain cerebral metabolic rates of AcAc (CMR(AcAc)) and glucose (CMR(glc)) did not differ between 21M and 4M rats, but were 28% and 44% higher, respectively, in 24M-KD compared to 24M rats. The region-to-whole brain ratio of CMR(glc) was 37-41% lower in the cortex and 40-45% lower in the cerebellum compared to CMR(AcAc) in 4M and 21M rats. We conclude that a quantitative measure of uptake of the brain's two principal exogenous fuels was generally similar in healthy aged and young rats, that the % of distribution across brain regions differed between ketones and glucose, and that brain uptake of both fuels was stimulated by mild, experimental ketonemia.
- Subjects :
- Blood Glucose
Male
Aging
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Glucose uptake
Central nervous system
Models, Biological
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Central nervous system disease
Lateral ventricles
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Cerebellum
Internal medicine
Ketogenesis
medicine
Animals
Molecular Biology
Cerebral Cortex
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
General Neuroscience
Magnetic resonance imaging
Ketosis
Ketones
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Rats
Endocrinology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Positron emission tomography
Positron-Emission Tomography
Neurology (clinical)
Radiopharmaceuticals
Diet, Ketogenic
Energy Metabolism
business
Developmental Biology
Ketogenic diet
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00068993
- Volume :
- 1488
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Brain Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f640990c0cedd7cd03f1ffb1d55c23d1
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2012.10.008