Octreotide

Introduction: Octreotide

Description of Octreotide

Octreotide: Somatostatin analogue used to treat secretory diarrheal states and gastrointestinal bleeding.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Octreotide: A drug similar to the naturally occurring growth hormone inhibitor somatostatin. Octreotide is used to treat diarrhea and flushing associated with certain types of tumors.
Source: National Institute of Health

Octreotide: The synthetic acetate salt of a long-acting cyclic octapeptide with pharmacologic properties mimicking those of the natural hormone somatostatin. Similar to somatostatin, octreotide suppresses the luteinizing hormone response to gonadotropin-releasing hormone, decreases splanchnic blood flow, and inhibits the release of serotonin, gastrin, vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), secretin, motilin, pancreatic polypeptide, and thyroid stimulating hormone. (NCI04)
Source: Diseases Database

Octreotide: potent, long-acting synthetic somatostatin octapeptide analog.
Source: CRISP

Octreotide: A potent, long-acting synthetic SOMATOSTATIN octapeptide analog that inhibits secretion of GROWTH HORMONE and is used to treat hormone-secreting tumors; DIABETES MELLITUS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; HYPERINSULINISM; hypergastrinemia; and small bowel fistula.
Source: MeSH 2007

Terms associated with Octreotide:

Terms Similar to Octreotide:

• Somatostatin

Source: Diseases Database

• Octreotide Acetate

Source - MeSH 2007

Broader terms for Octreotide

• Peptides, Cyclic

Source - MeSH 2007

• peptide hormone analog
• somatostatin

Source - CRISP

The term Octreotide can be used for:

• Sandostatin

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Octreotide

The following list attempts to classify Octreotide into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Polycyclic Compounds
  • Macrocyclic Compounds
    • Peptides, Cyclic
      • Octreotide

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
  • Peptides
    • Peptides, Cyclic
      • Octreotide

External links related to: Octreotide

• OMIM - SOMATOSTATIN; SST
• Sandostatin Online, Description, Chemistry, Ingredients - Octreotide (Injection) - RxList Monographs
• Sandostatin LAR Online, Description, Chemistry, Ingredients - Octreotide - RxList Monographs
• Sandostatin Online, Description, Chemistry, Ingredients - Octreotide Acetate (Injection) - RxList Monographs
• Somatostatin analogues for acute bleeding oesophageal varices (Cochrane Review)

Source: Diseases Database

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