Effect of ketogenic diet for drug-resistant epilepsy on immunological cells.

May Fouad Nassar Yasmin Gamal Abdou El-Gendy Mohamed Tarif HamzaMarwa Nasser MohamedNesrine Radwan

Published in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2021)

KD has no effect on neutrophil and lymphocytic counts as well as the number of adaptive and immune cells; nevertheless, it causes a reduction in phagocytic index in DRE. Accordingly, further detailed study for the full immunological profile and function is needed to ensure the safety of this therapeutic line and correlate it with the clinical history.

Keyphrases

drug resistant
multidrug resistant
acinetobacter baumannii
induced apoptosis
cell cycle arrest
physical activity
weight loss
peripheral blood
pseudomonas aeruginosa
endoplasmic reticulum stress
oxidative stress
cell death