This simple dip-and-read color-matching assay measures ketone bodies in urine. The result is matched with any of the seven colors provided in a color chart. The intensity and hue of the color formed depends on the concentration of acetoacetic acid and follows a gradation starting from light purple (0.2 mol/L acetoacetate) to dark purple and finally to dark violet (9 mol/L). The color developed ...

The ketogenic diet (KD) is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet based on the induction of the synthesis of ketone bodies (KB). Despite its widespread use, the systemic impact of KD is not completely understood. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of physiological levels of KB on HMEC-1 endothelial cells. To this aim, DNA oxidative damage and the activation of Nrf2, a known transc...

1. The formation of acetoacetate, beta-hydroxybutyrate and glucose was measured in the isolated perfused rat liver after addition of fatty acids. 2. The rates of ketone-body formation from ten fatty acids were approximately equal and independent of chain length (90-132mumol/h per g), with the exception of pentanoate, which reacted at one-third of this rate. The [beta-hydroxybutyrate]/[acetoacet...

In 1936 we reported the occurrence of severe ketosis “immediately following hypoglycemic shock in insulin-treated diabetics, who for some time prior to the insulin shock were well under control on diets containing 120 to 250 gm. of carbohydrates with commensurate doses of insulin” (1). Since 1935, when we first observed this causal connection between hypoglycemia and ketosis, appreciation of th...

The photoexcited aryl ketone-catalyzed C-H imidation of arenes and heteroarenes is reported. Using 3,6-dimethoxy-9H-thioxanthen-9-one as a catalyst in combination with a bench-stable imidating reagent, C-N bond formation proceeds with high efficiency and a broad substrate scope. A key part of this method is that the thioxanthone catalyst acts as an excited-state reductant, thus establishing an ...

In the title compound, C(25)H(32)O(7), the 3-hy-droxy-5,5-dimethyl-cyclo-hex-2-enone rings adopt slightly distorted envelope conformations with the two planes at the base of the envelope forming dihedral angles of 57.6 (4) and 53.9 (9)° with the benzene ring. There is an intra-molecular hy-droxy-ketone O-H⋯O inter-action between the two substituted cyclo-hexane rings as well as a short intra-mo...