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We assessed the metabolism of the ketone tracer, carbon-11 acetoacetate (<jats:sup>11<\/jats:sup>C-AcAc), by the left and right ventricles of the heart and by the kidney using positron emission tomography (PET) in n = 10 healthy adults under four experimental conditions: a 4-h fast (fasted) \u00b1 a single 12\u00a0g oral dose of D-beta-hydroxybutyrate (D-BHB), and a single complete, liquid replacement meal (hereafter referred to as the \u201cfed\u201d condition) \u00b1 a single 12\u00a0g oral dose of D-BHB. Under these experimental conditions, the kinetics of <jats:sup>11<\/jats:sup>C-AcAc metabolism fitted a two-compartment model in the heart and a three-compartment model in the kidney. Plasma ketones were about 10-fold higher with the oral dose of D-BHB. During the four conditions, tracer kinetics were broadly similar in the myocardium and kidney cortex. <jats:sup>11<\/jats:sup>C-AcAc metabolism by the kidney pelvis was similar in three of the four study conditions but, later, peaked significantly higher than that in the cortex; the exception was that the tracer uptake was significantly lower in the fed condition without D-BHB. <jats:sup>11<\/jats:sup>C-AcAc uptake was significantly inversely correlated with age in the kidney cortex, and its oxidative metabolism was significantly positively correlated with age in the left ventricle. D-BHB blunted the insulin, gastric inhibitory peptide, and C-peptide response to the meal. This PET methodology and these acute metabolic perturbations would be suitable for future studies assessing cardiorenal ketone metabolism in conditions in which heart and kidney functions are experimentally modified or compromised by disease.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fphys.2024.1443781","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,21]],"date-time":"2024-10-21T08:06:32Z","timestamp":1729497992000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Cardiorenal ketone metabolism in healthy humans assessed by 11C-acetoacetate PET: effect of D-\u03b2-hydroxybutyrate, a meal, and age"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Val\u00e9rie","family":"St-Pierre","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gabriel","family":"Richard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Etienne","family":"Croteau","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"M\u00e9lanie","family":"Fortier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Camille","family":"Vandenberghe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andr\u00e9 C.","family":"Carpentier","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bernard","family":"Cuenoud","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Stephen C.","family":"Cunnane","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"59","DOI":"10.1007\/s40336-021-00469-2","article-title":"The utilization of positron emission tomography in the evaluation of renal health and disease","volume":"10","author":"Amoabeng","year":"2022","journal-title":"Clin. 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