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PET Metabolic Biomarkers for Cancer
The body’s main fuel sources are fats, carbohydrates (glucose), proteins, and ketone bodies. It is well known that an important hallmark of cancer cells is the overconsumption of glucose. Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging using the glucose analog (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) has bee...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Libertas Academica
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5030827/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27679534 http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/BIC.S27483 |