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of pituitary tumours and very rarely concomitant hyperplasia. Patients usually present in the second or third decade ( Hernández-Ramírez et al . 2015 ) and are less responsive to somatostatin analogues (SSA) ( Daly et al . 2010 ). Germline mutations
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Introduction Somatostatin (SST) is synthesised and secreted by neuroendocrine cells in the CNS and in the gastrointestinal and immune systems ( Reichlin 1983 a , b ). In the pancreatic islet, the peptide is produced by δ-cells, which comprise
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Introduction Neuronostatin (NST), a recently described peptide hormone encoded in the preprosomatostatin gene but without amino-acid homology to somatostatin (SST) ( Samson et al. 2008 ), has been shown to exert important physiological
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( Melmed 2011 ). Surgery is the first-line treatment for most pituitary tumors, except for prolactin (PRL)-secreting lactotrope tumors (prolactinomas), which often respond favorably to medical treatment with dopamine agonists. Synthetic somatostatin (SST
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development, remains unclear. GH release is regulated by the hypothalamic peptides somatostatin and growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH). Somatostatin is released from somatostatin-expressing neurons in the periventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus
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in acromegaly ( Clayton 2003 ). The coexistence of hypertension increases the incidence of cardiac abnormalities ( Colao et al. 2000 a ) and the risk of premature death ( Holdaway et al. 2004 ). Treatment with the somatostatin receptor
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. During this time, testicular testosterone organizes hypothalamic somatostatin (SST) and growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) neurons that influence the liver later in development, and the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis develops as a result
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Introduction Somatostatin, an inhibitory hormone widely distributed throughout the central nervous system and peripheral tissues, plays an important regulatory role in neurotransmission and secretion, preventing the release of GH, TSH
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). Somatostatin produced in the gastric mucosa is known to suppress secretion of several gastrointestinal hormones in a paracrine fashion, and many studies have shown that somatostatin and its analogs inhibited ghrelin secretion in both humans and rats ( Barkan
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Introduction Somatostatin (or somatotropin release-inhibiting factor, SRIF) acts through five specific G-protein-coupled membrane receptors (SSTRs), code named sstr 1–5 , expressed in SRIF-target cells ( Patel 1999 , Møller et al . 2003 ). SRIF