Cortistatin Products

Description

The product of the Cortistatin gene is a neuropeptide with strong structural similarity to somatostatin. It binds to all known somatostatin receptors, and shares many pharmacological and functional properties with somatostatin, including the depression of neuronal activity. However, it also has many properties distinct from somatostatin, such as induction of slow-wave sleep, apparently by antagonism of the excitatory effects of acetylcholine on the cortex, reduction of locomotor activity, and activation of cation selective currents not responsive to somatostatin. [provided by RefSeq]

Bioinformatics

Entrez	1325 Human
Uniprot	NP_001293 Human
Product By Gene ID	1325
Alternate Names	cortistatin cortistatin-14 cortistatin-17 cortistatin-29 CST-14 CST-17 CST-29 MGC32686 preprocortistatin

Research Areas for Cortistatin

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Cytokine Research