Ketogenic diet for human diseases: the underlying mechanisms and potential for clinical implementations

H Zhu, D Bi, Y Zhang, C Kong, J Du, X Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, adequate-protein, and very-low-carbohydrate diet
regimen that mimics the metabolism of the fasting state to induce the production of ketone …

[HTML][HTML] Lipids and cancer: Emerging roles in pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapeutic intervention

LM Butler, Y Perone, J Dehairs, LE Lupien… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
With the advent of effective tools to study lipids, including mass spectrometry-based
lipidomics, lipids are emerging as central players in cancer biology. Lipids function as …

Dietary restriction of cysteine and methionine sensitizes gliomas to ferroptosis and induces alterations in energetic metabolism

PS Upadhyayula, DM Higgins, A Mela, M Banu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ferroptosis is mediated by lipid peroxidation of phospholipids containing polyunsaturated
fatty acyl moieties. Glutathione, the key cellular antioxidant capable of inhibiting lipid …

[HTML][HTML] Ketogenic diet in the treatment of cancer–where do we stand?

DD Weber, S Aminzadeh-Gohari, J Tulipan… - Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Cancer is one of the greatest public health challenges worldwide, and we still
lack complementary approaches to significantly enhance the efficacy of standard anticancer …

Dietary modifications for enhanced cancer therapy

N Kanarek, B Petrova, DM Sabatini - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Tumours depend on nutrients supplied by the host for their growth and survival.
Modifications to the host's diet can change nutrient availability in the tumour …

Mechanisms of action for the medium-chain triglyceride ketogenic diet in neurological and metabolic disorders

K Augustin, A Khabbush, S Williams, S Eaton… - The Lancet …, 2018 - thelancet.com
High-fat, low-carbohydrate diets, known as ketogenic diets, have been used as a non-
pharmacological treatment for refractory epilepsy. A key mechanism of this treatment is …

Dietary interventions and precision nutrition in cancer therapy

C Martínez-Garay, N Djouder - Trends in Molecular Medicine, 2023 - cell.com
In recent years dietary interventions have become a promising tool in cancer treatment and
have demonstrated a powerful ability to alter metabolism and tumor growth, development …

Targeting the Warburg effect for cancer treatment: Ketogenic diets for management of glioma

A Poff, AP Koutnik, KM Egan, S Sahebjam… - Seminars in Cancer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Gliomas are a highly heterogeneous tumor, refractory to treatment and the most frequently
diagnosed primary brain tumor. Although the current WHO grading system (2016) …

Beneficial effects of ketogenic diets for cancer patients: a realist review with focus on evidence and confirmation

RJ Klement - Medical Oncology, 2017 - Springer
Ketogenic diets (KDs) have gained popularity among patients and researchers alike due to
their putative anti-tumor mechanisms. However, the question remains which conclusions …

Infiltrative and drug‐resistant slow‐cycling cells support metabolic heterogeneity in glioblastoma

LB Hoang‐Minh, FA Siebzehnrubl, C Yang… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
Metabolic reprogramming has been described in rapidly growing tumors, which are thought
to mostly contain fast‐cycling cells (FCC s) that have impaired mitochondrial function and …