Cerebrospinal fluid somatostatin

Cerebrospinal fluid somatostatin is considered to be a brain-gut peptide, consisting of 14 amino acids, which is widely distributed in various tissues and organs of the body and has neuroendocrine function. The content of SS in CSF has nothing to do with plasma, suggesting that the source of CSF and blood The concentration is several times higher than that in plasma, which may be related to paracrine.

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