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Molecular analysis of the somatostatin receptor subtype 2 in human glioma cells.
Brain research. Molecular brain research - 22 Jan 1999
Held-Feindt J, Krisch B, Mentlein R
Abstract excerpt
Gliomas constantly overexpress the receptor subtype SST2 for the inhibitory peptide somatostatin. Since somatostatin or metabolically stable agonists like octreotide have an antiproliferative and antisecretory potential for the treatment of SST2-expressing tumors, we evaluated the molecular integrity of SST2 in gliomas on the DNA, mRNA and protein levels. Sequencing of about 1800 bases from the SST2 gene in nine...
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