The effect of somatostatin on plasma substance P (SP) in carcinoid syndrome (original) (raw)

1988, Regulatory Peptides

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Somatostatin, gastrointestinal peptides, and the carcinoid syndrome

Gut, 1981

During a control infusion noradrenaline and alcohol each provoked carcinoid flushing in four of five patients and pentagastrin in two of five patients. When tetradecapeptide somatostatin was infused on another day no patient flushed at any time, even when 16 jig of either noradrenaline or pentagastrin were administered. Carcinoid flushing was not associated with release of gastrin or any of the other vasoactive or postprandially released gut regulatory peptides measured. In a sixth

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