Inhibiting the hormone somatostatin may be a new treatment strategy to prevent dangerous blood glucose drops in type 1 diabetes. This has been shown by a study conducted at, among others ...

Researchers from the University of Utah identified a component within the venom that acts like somatostatin, a human hormone ...

Adding lanreotide to everolimus significantly prolonged progression-free survival compared with everolimus alone in patients ...

Medical treatment of the disease is usually with somatostatin analogs. An open, prospective, single-center study by Maiza et al. examined the long term (≤18 years) antihormonal and antitumor ...

Treatment of nonfunctioning neuroendocrine tumors with somatostatin analogs has been controversial, given the low antitumor effects of these drugs. The PROMID study group now reports that ...

Perspective Therapeutics, Inc. (NYSE:CATX) revealed updated interim results from its ongoing Phase 1/2a trial of [212Pb]VMT-α ...

Lanreotide, the active component of Somatuline Depot is an octapeptide analog of natural somatostatin. The mechanism of action of lanreotide is believed to be similar to that of natural somatostatin.

Molecular imaging, including somatostatin receptor scintigraphy but more so PET with specific tracers, such as C 11-5HTP or Ga 68-DOTA octreotate, will improve staging and follow-up of therapy in ...