Somatostatin Analogs in Diagnostics and Therapy

ISBN: 9781587062230 出版年：2007 页码：114 Pawlikowski, Marek CRC Press

Somatostatin is a peptide isolated originally from the hypothalamus and considered as an inhibitor of growth hormone secretion. However, further studies have shown that the peptide was ubiquitously distributed and exerts a large spectrum of physiological effects, mostly of an inhibitory nature. The very short half-life of the native peptide limits