• The brains of adults who live on a high-carbohydrate diet lose the ability to synthesize the key enzymes needed to metabolize ketones. (medscape.com)
  • The brain, heart, skeletal muscle, and liver depend on ketone bodies or on glucose for energy and for carbon chains to synthesize cellular proteins (see the images below). (medscape.com)
  • Ketone bodies are largely beta-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate. (medscape.com)
  • Many of these chemicals are synthesized in the brain, in part or wholly from glucose or ketone bodies. (medscape.com)
  • 4. Name ketones bodies. (medical-junction.com)
  • Outline the steps of synthesis & utilization of ketone bodies. (medical-junction.com)
  • Alcohol dehydrogenases are used to synthesize chiral alcohols from ketones. (pharmtech.com)