sandostatin การใช้

• As project manager for the Sandoz drug Sandostatin, he had found that the drug turned out to have more uses than initially predicted.
• Injections of Sandostatin, a drug that stops carcinoid cells from manufacturing the debilitating chemicals, is most effective, in addition to surgical removal of the tumors.
• The company saw its sales of the cancer drug Aredia rise by 68 percent, while Sandostatin, a drug to treat bone disease, rose by 38 percent.
• "' Octreotide "'( brand name "'Sandostatin "', octapeptide that mimics natural somatostatin pharmacologically, though it is a more potent inhibitor of growth hormone, glucagon, and insulin than the natural hormone.
• Patients initially receive 25 mcg of octreotide ( Sandostatin ) in 5 ml of normal saline over 3 to 5 minutes via intravenous infusion ( IV ) as an initial bolus, and then, are infused continuously with an intravenous infusion of somatostatin ( 0.27 / ?gm / m 2 / min ) to suppress endogenous insulin and glucose secretion.