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Metanephrine
A product of the O-methylation of epinephrine by catechol O-methyltransferase, which has no physiologic activity. Increased levels of free metanephrine in patient blood plasma samples may be a diagnostic indicator for pheochromocytoma. (NCI Thesaurus)
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