1. Brazeau P., Vale W., Burgus R., Ling N., Butcher M., Rivier J., Guillemin R. Hypothalamic polypeptide that inhibits the secretion of immunoreactive pituitary growth hormone. Science 179: 77, 1973.
2. Pradayrol L., Jornvall H., Mutt V., Ribet A. N-terminally extended somatostatin: the primary structure of somatostatin 28. FEBS Lett. 109: 55, 1980.
3. Patel Y.C. General aspects of the biology and function of somatostatin. In: Müller, E.E., Thorner, M.O., Weil, C. (Eds.), The role of somatostatin: basic and clinical aspects of neuroscience series. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Vol. 4, 1992, pp. 1–16.
4. Patel Y.C, J-L Liu, A.S. Galanopoulou, D.N. Papachristou. Production, action, and degradation of somatostatin. In: Jefferson L.S., Cherrington A.D. (Eds.), The Handbook of Physiology, The endocrine pancreas and regulation of metabolism, Oxford University Press, N.Y. 1997 (in press).
5. Patel Y.C, O’Neil W. Peptides derived from cleavage of prosomatostatin at carboxy and amino terminal segments: characterization of tissue and secreted forms in the rat. J. Biol. Chem. 263: 745, 1988.