Butyrate is more ketogenic than leucine or octanoate-monoacylglycerol in healthy adult humans

Butyrate, carnitine and leucine are dietary ingredients that may be ketogenic but whether they are equally or more ketogenic in humans than medium-chain triacylglycerols is unclear.Our objective was to compare the ketogenic effect in healthy adult humans of l-leucine, butyrate, octanoyl-monoacylglyc...

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Main Authors: Valérie St-Pierre, Alexandre Courchesne-Loyer, Camille Vandenberghe, Marie Hennebelle, Christian-Alexandre Castellano, Stephen C. Cunnane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-05-01
Series:Journal of Functional Foods
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175646461730097X