Family · Pharmaceutical analytical standards
Somatostatin
A 14-amino-acid peptide hormone made by the hypothalamus, pancreas and gut: it curbs the release of growth hormone, insulin and glucagon. It was isolated in 1973 from sheep hypothalami in Roger Guillemin's laboratory. This family brings together the active ingredient and pharmacopoeial impurities.
Did you know?In 1977 a synthetic somatostatin gene was made to work in the bacterium Escherichia coli: it was one of the first hormones produced by genetic engineering.
No product matches your search.
EDQM standards 2
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
Need a molecule you cannot find?
Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.
