In vitro and in vivo primate evaluation of carbon-11-etomidate and carbon-11-metomidate as potential tracers for PET imaging of the adrenal cortex and its tumors

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 982-989

  Bergström, Mats ^a   Bonasera, Thomas A ^a   Lu, Li ^a   Bergström, Elisabeth ^a   Backlin, Carin ^a   Juhlin, Claes ^a   Långström, Bengt ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

11 hydroxylase; Adrenal cortex; Etomidate; PET; Steroid synthesis

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); ETOMIDATE; ETOMIDATE C 11; KETOCONAZOLE; METOMIDATE; METOMIDATE C 11; METYRAPONE; STEROID 11BETA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCHEMISTRY; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL CORTEX NEOPLASMS; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; ETOMIDATE; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; IMIDAZOLES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA MULATTA; RATS; SWINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031838388     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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