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Therefore, we studied protein fractional synthesis rate (FSR) of multiple organ tissues of 12-week-old male mice that were previously established as inherently low-active (n = 15, C3H\/HeJ strain) and high-active (n = 15, C57L\/J strain). Total body water of each mouse was enriched to 5% deuterium oxide (D<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>O)<jats:italic>via<\/jats:italic>intraperitoneal injection and maintained with D<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>O enriched drinking water for about 24 h. Blood samples from the jugular vein and tissues (kidney, heart, lung, muscle, fat, jejunum, ileum, liver, brain, skin, and bone) were collected for enrichment analysis of alanine by LC-MS\/MS. Protein FSR was calculated as -ln(1-enrichment). Data are mean\u00b1SE as fraction\/day (unpaired t-test). Kidney protein FSR in the low-active mice was 7.82% higher than in high-active mice (low-active: 0.1863\u00b10.0018, high-active: 0.1754\u00b10.0028, p = 0.0030). No differences were found in any of the other measured organ tissues. However, all tissues resulted in a generally higher protein FSR in the low-activity mice compared to the high-activity mice (e.g. lung LA: 0.0711\u00b10.0015, HA: 0.0643\u00b10.0020, heart LA: 0.0649\u00b1 0.0013 HA: 0.0712\u00b10.0073). Our observations suggest that high-active mice in most organ tissues are no more inherently equipped for metabolic adaptation than low-active mice, but there may be a connection between protein metabolism of kidney tissue and physical activity level. 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