Somatostatin family
The somatostatin family is a protein family with somatostatin as titular member, a hormone which inhibits the release of the pituitary somatotropin (growth hormone) and inhibits the release of glucagon and insulin from the pancreas of fasted animals. Cortistatin is a cortical neuropeptide with neuronal depressant and sleep-modulating properties.[1]
| Somatostatin/cortistatin family | |||||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||||
| Symbol | Somatostatin | ||||||||||
| Pfam | PF03002 | ||||||||||
| InterPro | IPR004250 | ||||||||||
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Human proteins from this family
- Cortistatin (CORT)
- Somatostatin (SST)
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gollark: That many people dying would utterly break hospitals (if anyone even turns up when they might just die from trying to treat people) and also everything else.
gollark: People would probably avoid human contact a lot more than they actually have been bothering to with COVID-19, but this hypothetical virus is twice as infectious so that would be a problem.
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References
- De Lecea L, Danielson PE, Criado JR, Prospero-garcia O, Gautvik KM, Schweitzer P, Dunlop CL, Siggins GR, Henriksen SJ, Sutcliffe JG (1996). "A cortical neuropeptide with neuronal depressant and sleep-modulating properties". Nature. 381 (6579): 242–245. doi:10.1038/381242a0. PMID 8622767.
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