In vivo demonstration of enzyme activity in endocrine pancreatic tumors: Decarboxylation of carbon-11-DOPA to carbon-11-dopamine

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 32-37

  Bergström, Mats ^a,b   Eriksson, Barbro ^a   Öberg, Kjell ^a   Sundin, Anders ^a   Ahlström, Håkan ^a   Lindner, Karl Johan ^a   Bjurling, Peter ^a   Långström, Bengt ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

aromatic amino acid decarboxylase; carbon 11 DOPA; endocrine pancreatic tumors; PET; somatostatin analogs

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPEPTIN; CARBON 11; DOPAMINE; LEVODOPA; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DECARBOXYLATION; DRUG TUMOR LEVEL; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; GASTRINOMA; GLUCAGONOMA; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PANCREAS SURGERY; PANCREAS TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

AGED; AROMATIC-L-AMINO-ACID DECARBOXYLASES; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; DECARBOXYLATION; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GASTRINOMA; GLUCAGONOMA; HUMANS; ISOTOPE LABELING; LEVODOPA; MIDDLE AGED; OCTREOTIDE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; SOMATOSTATIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0029971787     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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