Definitions containing the term somatostatin

What does somatostatin mean?

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somatostatin

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SR

somatostatin receptor

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SLI

somatostatin-like immunoreactivity

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What does somatostatin mean?

so•mat•o•stat•in(n.)
a polypeptide hormone, produced in the brain and pancreas, that inhibits secretion of somatotropin from the hypothalamus and inhibits insulin production by the pancreas.

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