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To detect the metabolic fate of a stable isotope tracer, two experiments must be performed in parallel under identical conditions: for the first experiment, the biological system needs to be incubated with a mixture of stable isotope-labeled tracer and unlabeled compound. For the second experiment, the system needs to be incubated under the same conditions with only unlabeled tracer
