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ketone body metabolic process
Description
"The chemical reactions and pathways involving ketone bodies, any one of the three substances: acetoacetate, D-3-hydroxybutyrate (beta-hydroxybutyrate) or acetone. Although 3-hydroxybutyrate is not a ketone, it is classed as a ketone body because it exists in an equilibrium with acetoacetate. Ketone bodies may accumulate in excessive amounts in the body in starvation, diabetes mellitus or in other defects of carbohydrate metabolism." [ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"]
Parents
cellular metabolic processTerms
ketone body metabolismEnglish- exact synonym
Identifier
GO:0046950
