Endocrine Abstracts

Endocrine-related cancers comprise a complex group of heterogeneous pathologies whose development and progression are profoundly conditioned by endocrine–metabolic deregulations. The well-known capacity of somatostatin (SST) to inhibit hormone secretion and cell proliferation in a wide variety of cell types, coupled to the ubiquitous expression of SST receptors (ssts) in normal and tumoral tissues, has led SST analogs (SSAs) to be extensively used in clinical practice for...

Raul M Luque is an Associate Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Cordoba (UCO), Spain. Dr. Luque graduated (1997) and obtained his PhD (2003) in Biological Sciences from the UCO and completed his postdoctoral training at the Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago (USA). He currently serves as Co-Head of the Hormones and Cancer Research Group of the Department of Cell Bio...