Somatostatin analogs in diagnostics and therapy
By: [edited by] Marek Pawlikowski.
Contributors: Pawlikowski, M.
Series: Medical intelligence unit; Medical intelligence unit (Unnumbered : 2003)
Publisher: Landes Bioscience
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587062230
Subjects: Somatostatin; Somatostatin -- analogs & derivatives; Somatostatin -- physiology; Neuroendocrine Tumors -- diagnosis; Neuroendocrine Tumors -- drug therapy; Receptors, Somatostatin -- physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Physiology of somatostatin / Marek Pawlikowski; title: Somatostatin receptors: distribution in normal tissues and transduction mechanisms / Gabriela Melen-Mucha and Slawomir Mucha; title: Somatostatin analogs: lessons in functional complexity and receptor interactions / Michael D. Culler; title: Somatostatin receptors in human tumors: in vitro studies / Marek Pawlikowski; title: The treatment of acromegaly with somatostatin analogs / Nuria Sucunza, Jose Barahona, and Susan M. Webb; title: The treatment of neuroendocrine tumors (NET) with somatostatin analogs / Beata Kos-Kudla; title: Radiolabeled somatostatin analogs in the diagnosis and therapy of neuroendocrine tumors / Leszek Krelicki, Jolanta Kunikowska, and Marianna I. Bak; title: Somatostatin analogs-new perspectives / Gabriela Melen-Mucha and Marek Pawlikowski.