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| Title |
The calorically restricted ketogenic diet, an effective alternative therapy for malignant brain cancer
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| Published in |
Nutrition & Metabolism, February 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1743-7075-4-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Weihua Zhou, Purna Mukherjee, Michael A Kiebish, William T Markis, John G Mantis, Thomas N Seyfried |
| Abstract |
Malignant brain cancer persists as a major disease of morbidity and mortality in adults and is the second leading cause of cancer death in children. Many current therapies for malignant brain tumors fail to provide long-term management because they ineffectively target tumor cells while negatively impacting the health and vitality of normal brain cells. In contrast to brain tumor cells, which lack metabolic flexibility and are largely dependent on glucose for growth and survival, normal brain cells can metabolize both glucose and ketone bodies for energy. This study evaluated the efficacy of KetoCal, a new nutritionally balanced high fat/low carbohydrate ketogenic diet for children with epilepsy, on the growth and vascularity of a malignant mouse astrocytoma (CT-2A) and a human malignant glioma (U87-MG). |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 89 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 12 | 13% |
| Spain | 11 | 12% |
| Canada | 5 | 6% |
| Mexico | 3 | 3% |
| South Africa | 2 | 2% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 8 | 9% |
| Unknown | 42 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 66 | 74% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 17 | 19% |
| Scientists | 6 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 388 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Israel | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 378 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 79 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 57 | 15% |
| Researcher | 45 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 35 | 9% |
| Other | 31 | 8% |
| Other | 67 | 17% |
| Unknown | 74 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 103 | 27% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 59 | 15% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 38 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 36 | 9% |
| Neuroscience | 12 | 3% |
| Other | 59 | 15% |
| Unknown | 81 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 127. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 March 2024.
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#490
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#2
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Altmetric has tracked 25,611,630 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,020 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 28.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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