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Methionine C 11

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-015126

A synthetic amino acid radiolabeled with carbon-11. Acting as a methyl donor, methionine C 11 is incorporated into macromolecules, where it serves as a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent for detecting tumors with high rates of protein synthesis.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-015126
FieldOncology and biomedicine
Abbreviation11C-MET
Synonyms11C-methionine
ReferencesNational Cancer Institute Thesaurus (CC BY 4.0)
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-015126",
  "term": "Methionine C 11",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "A synthetic amino acid radiolabeled with carbon-11. Acting as a methyl donor, methionine C 11 is incorporated into macromolecules, where it serves as a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent for detecting tumors with high rates of protein synthesis.",
  "abbreviation": "11C-MET",
  "synonyms": [
    "11C-methionine"
  ],
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/methionine-c-11/"
}

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