Somatostatin analogues are drugs that stop human body to inhibit excessively many hormones. Some neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) make large amounts of hormones that cause a group of symptoms ...
Octreotide is an amino acid monomer attached to the amide group. It acts similar to the hormone somatostatin. Octreotide lowers a variety of hormones such as glucagon, insulin, growth hormone, and others.
