Endocrine Abstracts

Neuroendocrine balance of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) is a critical component in the control of metabolic homeostasis, and its dysregulation can contribute to severe pathologies, like obesity, where the HPA is significantly altered at the central and systemic levels. Somatostatin and cortistatin have been shown to reduce circulating ACTH and glucocorticoid-levels in rodents and humans in vivo. However, to date, no studies have thoroughly investigated and compa...

Somatostatin (SST), Cortistatin (CORT), ghrelin, and their corresponding receptors (ssts and GHS-R) are closely interrelated systems involved in the regulation of essential hormones for metabolic homeostasis, like insulin, whose release is inhibited by SST/CORT and stimulated by ghrelin. To investigate the underlying mechanisms of this insulin regulation, we analyzed the expression of such systems at pancreatic level in wild type (WT) and CORT knock-out mice (CORT-KO) under bo...