Somatostatin (Endocrine Updates)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781402077999
Subjects: Physiology; Medical; Medical / Nursing; therapeutic use; genetics; Somatostatin; Biochemistry; Pharmacology; Medical / Pharmacology; Internal Medicine; Evolution, Molecular; analogs & derivatives
First sentence: Work carried out in the late sixties and early seventies led to the discovery of somatostatin (SST) as a small hypothalamic polypeptide acting on the pituitary to inhibit growth hormone secretion (Brazeau et al., 1973; Krulich et al., 1968).