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Pancreastatin
Pancreastatin (48 aa, ~5 kDa) is encoded by the human CHGA gene. This protein is released from the full length chromogranin-A protein by caspase cleavage and plays a role in the inhibition of the release of chromogranin-A, parathyroid hormone and somatostatin. (NCI Thesaurus)
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