Category:GO:0046950 ! cellular ketone body metabolic process

name: cellular ketone body metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
def: "The chemical reactions and pathways involving ketone bodies, any one of the three substances: acetoacetate, D-3-hydroxybutyrate (beta-hydroxybutyrate) or acetone, as carried out by individual cells. 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]
subset: goslim_pir
synonym: "cellular ketone body metabolism" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0044237 ! cellular metabolic process
is_a: GO:0044281 ! small molecule metabolic process

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0046950</GOterm>
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