Imaging lipid synthesis in hepatocellular carcinoma with [methyl- 11C]choline: Correlation with in vivo metabolic studies

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 98-106

  Kuang, Yu ^a   Salem, Nicolas ^a   Tian, Haibin ^b   Kolthammer, Jeffrey A ^a   Corn, David J ^b   Wu, Chunying ^b   Wang, Fangjing ^a   Wang, Yanming ^b   Lee, Zhenghong ^a,b  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

CDP choline pathway; Choline phosphate cytidylyltransferase; PET of hepatocellular carcinoma; Phosphatidylethanolamine methylation pathway; Radiolabeled choline

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE C 11; CHOLINE KINASE; CHOLINE PHOSPHATE CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; CITICOLINE; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER TISSUE; CHOLINE UPTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DRUG TUMOR LEVEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIPOGENESIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; METABOLITE; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; WOODCHUCK;

ANIMALS; BETAINE; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHOLINE; CHOLINE KINASE; CHOLINE-PHOSPHATE CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; LIPIDS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MARMOTA; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS;

EID: 79851493287     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.080366     Document Type: Article

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