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Q: What is somatostatin released from?
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Where is somatostatin released from?

Somatostatin is an inhibitor of growth hormone release from the anterior pituitary and suppresses the release of a variety of other hormones involved in the regulation of important physiological functions of the gastrointestinal tract.


Is somatostatin a polar molecule?

Somatostatin is 14 amino-acid and is water soluble and polar.Here is a good page with informationhttp://www.answers.com/somatostatin


Amylase lipase carboxypeptidase somatostatin and elastase which is not produced by the acini of the pancreas?

somatostatin


What do D cells secrete?

D-cells, or Delta cells, can be found in the stomach, intestine, or Islets of Langerhans (the hormone producing regions of the pancreas which also produce glucagon and insulin). Delta cells produce somatostatin, a regulatory hormone. When somatostatin is released it interacts with specialized receptor cells, these cells control the production of other hormones. Somatostatin coming in contact with a somatostatin receptor will inhibit the production of hormones that receptor controls.


What cell produces somatostatin?

delta cells


What inhibit gastric motility?

Somatostatin


What hormone is secreted by gastric mucosa?

Somatostatin


What hormone is secreted by the pancreas?

Several hormones are secreted by the pancreas. They include insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, and pancreatic peptide.


What is the treatment for pituitary tumors?

Hormone-secreting tumors can be successfully treated with surgery, radiation, bromocriptine (Parlodel), Sandostatin (Octreotide), or other somatostatin analogues (drugs similar to somatostatin).


What produces somatostatin?

The pancreas, Stomach & Upper intestine. It is a Hormone.


What gland secretes Somatostatin?

The pancreas along with glucagon and insulin.


What does the pancreas release?

The pancreas is endocrine (producing several important hormones, including insulin, glucagon, and somatostatin). The most important is insulin which controls the take-up of glucose by the body's cells.