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Italian Society of Endocrinology Career Award Lecture: From somatostatin to… somatomedin
Somatostatin plays different parts in hormonal regulation through 5 specific receptors in human body. It has two interesting actions such as an antisecretory activity, mostly on the gastrointestinal system and...
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Pre-surgical treatment with somatostatin analogues in patients with acromegaly: The case for
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Immunohistochemical localization and quantitative expression of somatostatin receptors in normal human spleen and thymus: Implications for the in vivo visualization during somatostatin receptor scintigraphy
Background: [111In-DTPA-D-Phe1]-octreotide scintigraphy allows the visualization of SRIF receptor (SSR)-expressing tumors, including thymic tumors, and normal tissues. While the spleen is clearly...
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Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy in thoracic diseases
Somatostatin (SS) receptor scintigraphy is useful for the diagnosis of lesions with high density of SS receptors, and above all neuroendocrine tumors. For several years, only indium-labeled octreotide has been...