Knockout mouse

Skeletal muscle

Endocrinology

Internal medicine

Medicine

Receptor

Inflammasome

Chemistry

Inflammation

Heart failure

Circulation Heart Failure

Background: Previous studies have shown beneficial effects of acute infusion of the primary ketone body, β-hydroxybutyrate, in heart failure (HF). However, whether chronic elevations in circulating ketones are beneficial remains unknown. Methods: To chronically elevate circulating ketones in mice, we deleted the expression of the ketolytic, rate-limiting-enzyme, SCOT (succinyl-CoA:3-ketoacid-CoA transferase 1; encoded by Oxct1 ), in skeletal muscle. Tamoxifen-inducible skeletal muscle-specific Oxct1 Muscle− / − knockout (n=32) mice and littermate controls (wild type; WT; n=35) were subjected to transverse aortic constriction (TAC) surgery to induce HF. Results: Deletion of SCOT in skeletal, but not cardiac muscle resulted in elevated concentrations of fasted circulating β-hydroxybutyrate in knockout mice compared with WT mice ( P =0.030). Five weeks following TAC, WT mice progressed to HF, whereas knockout mice with elevated fasting circulating ketones were largely protected from the TAC-induced effects obser...

Chronically Elevating Circulating Ketones Can Reduce Cardiac Inflammation and Blunt the Development of Heart Failure