The arteriovenous uptake differences for glucose, lactate, pyruvate, />'hydroxybutyrate, and acetoacetate were measured in vessels across squa mine, cell carcinomas in ten selected patients with tumors of the head and neck. All tumors measured took up glucose, pyruvate, 0-hydroxybutyrate, and acetoacetate. They could either produce, take up, or main tain a constant level of lactate. These tumor...

The arteriovenous uptake differences for glucose, lactate, pyruvate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and acetoacetate were measured in vessels across squamous cell carcinomas in ten selected patients with tumors of the head and neck. All tumors measured took up glucose, pyruvate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and acetoacetate. They could either produce, take up, or maintain a constant level of lactate. These tum...

Two mechanisms have been proposed for the formation of acetoacetate from acetyl-CoA by liver preparations. With the use of a partially purified system prepared from acetone powders of beef liver, Lynen et al. (1) obtained evidence that acetoacetate formation proceeded via P-hydroxy-fi-methylglutaryl coensyme A as intermediate and involved the HlMG-COAT condensing and HMG-Coh cleavage enzymes as...

Rates of plasma acetoacetate and total ketone-body production and oxidation to CO2 were determined by an isotope tracer technique in eight obese subjects undergoing progressive starvation. After a brief fast and under conditions of mild ketonemia and minimal ketonuria, rates of acetoacetate and total ketone-body production and oxidation were directly related to the increasing plasma concentrati...

A gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method for determination of ketone bodies (β-hydroxybutyrate, acetone, and acetoacetate) in blood is presented. The method is based on enzymatic oxidation of D-β-hydroxybutyrate to acetoacetate, followed by decarboxylation to acetone, which was quantified by the use of headspace GC-MS using acetone-(13)C(3) as an internal standard. The developed me...

I . An experiment was performed to study the eEect of sodium acetoacetate on urinary excretion of santhurenic acid and other tryptophan metabolites in male albino rats. z. Animals were fed on a nicotinic acid-deficient diet for a period of 3 weeks. The animals were then divided into two groups and, after the basal urinary excretion of the tryptophan metabolites had been estimated, the rats of b...

In 1944, Weinhouse et al. (1) reported that the incubation of carboxyllabeled octanoate with rat liver slices yielded acetoacetate in which the carboxyl and carbonyl carbons were equally labeled. Random condensation of 2-carbon units resulting from ,8 oxidation was therefore offered by these workers as a possible mechanism for the formation of acetoacetic acid from octanoate. The conversion of ...