| AA | amino acid |
| AAT | amino acid transporter |
| ALP | alkaline phosphatase |
| ASC | alanine-serine-cysteine |
| ASCT2 | alanine-serine-cysteine transporter 2 |
| BCa | breast cancer |
| BM | bone marrow |
| 11C | carbon-11 |
| 14C | carbon-14 |
| CB | cortical bone |
| 18F | fluorine-18 |
| FDG | 2-deoxy-2-fluoro-d-glucose |
| 3H | tritium-3 |
| H&E | hematoxylin-eosin |
| HMDP | hydroxymethylene diphosphonate |
| LAT1 | L-type amino acid transporter 1 |
| mTORC1 | mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 |
| 99mTc | technetium-99m |
| Ob | osteoblasts |
| Oc | osteoclasts |
| Os | osteoids |
| PET | positron emission tomography |
| PCa | prostate cancer |
| pTBF | peri-tumor bone formation |
| RCP | radiochemical purity |
| ROI | region-of-interest |
| SCEM | Super Cryoembedding Medium |
| SNAT2 | sodium-dependent neutral amino acid transporter 2 |
| TB | toluidine blue |
| T/BG | targetmean (metastatic leion)-to-backgroundmean (muscle) |
| TRAP | tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase |
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