title: Chromatographic behaviour and post-mortem stability of somatostatin in the rat and mouse brain.
abstract: Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (SSLI) extracted from mouse and rat brains was found to be homogeneous and identical to authentic somatostatin (SS) in its chromatographic behaviour on reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). SSLI was found to be stable in mouse brain stored under post-mortem conditions simulating the handling of human autopsy material for up to 72 h. However, the amount of SSLI extractable by acetone-HCl was found to decrease over the first 10 h of post-mortem storage to about 25% of the control level, hence care must be exercised in choosing an appropriate extraction method for SSLI measurements in post-mortem brains.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000032:analysis*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D013004:Somatostatin