Vol. 42 (7) 2021 Neuro endocrinology letters

The effect of the ketogenic diet on leptin, chemerin and resistin levels in children with epilepsy.

OBJECTIVES: Recently, inflammation have been proposed as one of the mechanisms underlying the patology of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). Ketogenic diet (KD) is one of the therapeutic methods used in DRE. There are some data that adipokines may modulate inflammatory processes and their concentrations are influenced by KD. Therefore, the .....