Liver uptake of free fatty acids in vivo in humans as determined with 14(R,S)-[18F]fluoro-6-thia-heptadecanoic acid and PET

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1160-1164

  Iozzo, Patricia ^a,d   Turpeinen, Anu K ^b   Takala, Teemu ^a   Oikonen, Vesa ^a   Solin, Olof ^a   Ferrannini, Ele ^c   Nuutila, Pirjo ^a   Knuuti, Juhani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

18F FTHA; Fatty acids; Liver metabolism; PET

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; FLUORINE 18; FLUORO 6 THIAHEPTADECANOIC ACID; FLUORO 6 THIAHEPTADECANOIC ACID F 18; HEPTADECANOIC ACID; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG UPTAKE; FATTY ACID TRANSPORT; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; METABOLITE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY;

ALGORITHMS; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOISOTOPE DILUTION TECHNIQUE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0041735203     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-003-1215-0     Document Type: Article

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