somatostatin

(noun)

A polypeptide hormone, secreted by the pancreas, that inhibits the production of certain other hormones.

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Examples of somatostatin in the following topics:

  • Types of Cells in the Pancreas

    • It is an endocrine gland that produces several important hormones, including insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, and pancreatic polypeptide.
    • Delta cells that produce somatostatin, and make up 3–10% of the total islet cells.
    • Somatostatin is a hormone that suppresses the release of the other hormones made in the pancreas.

  • Overview of Pancreatic Islets

    • Delta cells that produce somatostatin and make up 3–10% of the total islet cells.
    • Somatostatin is a hormone that suppresses the release of the other hormones made in the pancreas.
    • Somatostatin inhibits the activity of alpha cells and beta cells.

  • Histology of the Pancreas

    • It is both an endocrine gland that produces several important hormones—including insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, and pancreatic polypeptide—as well as a digestive organ that secretes pancreatic juice that contain digestive enzymes to assist the absorption of nutrients and digestion in the small intestine.

  • Pancreas

    • As an endocrine gland, the pancreas produces several important hormones that include insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, and pancreatic polypeptide.

  • Pancreatic Juice

    • It is both an endocrine gland that produces several important hormones—including insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, and pancreatic polypeptide—and a digestive organ that secretes pancreatic juice that has digestive enzymes that assist the absorption of nutrients and digestion in the small intestine.

  • Hypothalamus

    • The hypothalamus contains thyrotropin-releasing hormone, gonadotropin-releasing hormone, growth hormone-releasing hormone, corticotropin-releasing hormone, somatostatin, and dopamine, as well as vasopressin and oxytocin.

  • Mammary Glands

    • Shrinkage of the mammary duct tree and ECM remodeling by various proteinase is under the control of somatostatin and other growth-inhibiting hormones and local factors.

  • Digestive Properties of the Stomach

    • It is inhibited by a pH normally less than four (high acid), as well as the hormone somatostatin.