Opportunities in somatostatin research: Biological, chemical and therapeutic aspects

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 999-1017

  Weckbecker, G ^a   Lewis, Ian ^a   Albert, Rainer ^a   Schmid, Herbert A ^a   Hoyer, Daniel ^a   Bruns, Christian ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPEPTIN; BIM 23268; BIM 23627; CH 275; CYCLOPEPTIDE; CYN 154806; DEXTRO PHENYLALANYLCYSTEINYLTYROSYL DEXTRO TRYPTOPHYLLYSYLCYSTEINYLTHREONINAMIDE 2,6 DISULFIDE; DEXTRO PHENYLALANYLPHENYLALANYLPHENYLALANYL DEXTRO TRYPTOPHYLLYSYLTHREONYLPHENYLALANYLTHREONINAMIDE; DEXTRO PHENYLALANYLPHENYLALANYLTYROSYL DEXTRO TRYPTOPHYLLYSYLVALYLPHENYLALANYL DEXTRO [3 (2 NAPHTHYL)ALANINAMIDE]; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUCAGON; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN; KE 108; L 362855; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; OCTREOTHER; OCTREOTIDE; PASIREOTIDE; PENTETREOTIDE; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; PRL 2970; PTR 3173; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; SB 710411; SDZ 222100; SEGLITIDE; SMT 487; SOMATOSTATIN; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VAPREOTIDE;

ACROMEGALY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; CUSHING DISEASE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; EYE DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GRAVES DISEASE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLID TUMOR; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0346328229     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd1255     Document Type: Review

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