Ketone Body Infusion With 3‐Hydroxybutyrate Reduces Myocardial Glucose Uptake and Increases Blood Flow in Humans: A Positron Emission Tomography Study - Concepedia

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Ketone Body Infusion With 3‐Hydroxybutyrate Reduces Myocardial Glucose Uptake and Increases Blood Flow in Humans: A Positron Emission Tomography Study

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2017

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Lars Christian Gormsen, Mads Svart, Henrik Holm Thomsen, Esben Søndergaard, Mikkel Holm Vendelbo, Nana Louise Christensen, Lars Poulsen Tolbod, Hendrik J. Harms, Roni Nielsen, Henrik Wiggers,

Journal of the American Heart Association

Abstract

Ketone bodies displace MGU and increase myocardial blood flow in healthy humans; these novel observations suggest that ketone bodies are important cardiac fuels and vasodilators, which may have therapeutic potentials.

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