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Once-Monthly Somatostatin Analogue Increases Overall Survival in Carcinoid Syndrome
A once-monthly somatostatin analogue, octreotide LAR, has been shown to nearly double survival time for patients with carcinoid syndrome, according to data presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)...
Selecting for somatostatin receptors
A Finnish company has identified small-molecule inhibitors of two forms of the somatostatin receptor – subtypes 1 and 4 – and believes this could spark new interest in drugs that mediate the hormone's activity.
Women With Fibromyalgia Have Impaired Growth Hormone Secretion
A DGReview of:"Impaired growth hormone secretion in fibromyalgia patients: Evidence for augmented hypothalamic somatostatin tone"
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