Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Somatostatins are physiological down regulatory proteins that act via 5 different transmembrane receptors (SSTR1-5, including isoforms SSTR-2a & 2b) via GTP binding proteins. The aim of this study was to determine the distribution of somatostatin receptors in thyrocytes of different thyroid pathologies.Method: Formalin fixed paraffin embedded sections from archival tissue were immunostained. Sections underwent dewaxing and rehydration before microwave ant...