Johns Hopkinsin yliopistossa tehdyn tutkimuksen mukaan ketokarppaus lievittää kehitysvammaa hiirillä, sellaisilla, joilla on irreversiibelinä pidetty perinnöllinen Kabuki-oireyhtymä.
Medical Xpress: Low-carb diet alleviates inherited form of intellectual disability in miceLainaa:
Experimenting on mice with a genetic change similar to that found in people with a rare inherited disease called Kabuki syndrome, Johns Hopkins scientists report that a very low-carbohydrate diet can "open up" DNA and improve mental function.
Abstrakti:
A ketogenic diet rescues hippocampal memory defects in a mouse model of Kabuki syndrome, PNAS,
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1611431114