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amino acids, ketogenic
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Those amino acids that give rise to ketone bodies or acetate when they are metabolized. Only leucine and lysine are purely ketogenic; isoleucine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan give rise to both ketogenic and glucogenic fragments; the remainder are purely glucogenic. See also amino acids, glucogenic.
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