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Somatostatin, a hypothalamic peptide that inhibits the secretion of pituitary growth hormone, inhibits basal insulin secretion in fasted cats and rats. In fasted baboons both basal and arginine-stimulated secretion of insulin and glucagon are inhibited. Somatostatin appears to act directly on the endocrine pancreas. The action is dose-related, rapid in onset, and readily reversed.
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Perforated eardrums in the preserved temporal bones of a mummified Egyptian male in otherwise normal middle ears offer new evidence of acute otitis media and probable defective hearing among ancient Egyptians.