Biology:Limostatin

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Limostatin (from Limos, the Greek goddess of starvation) is a peptide hormone found in Drosophila melanogaster that suppresses the production and release of Insulin. The hormone is important in adaptation to starvation conditions, and represents a mechanism by which insulin is negatively regulated.[1][2][3]

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  1. Alfa, Ronald W.; Park, Sangbin; Skelly, Kathleen-Rose; Poffenberger, Gregory; Jain, Nimit; Gu, Xueying; Kockel, Lutz; Wang, Jing et al. (February 2015). "Suppression of Insulin Production and Secretion by a Decretin Hormone". Cell Metabolism 21 (2): 323–333. doi:10.1016/j.cmet.2015.01.006. PMID 25651184. 
  2. "Metabolism: Limostatin—a decretin—suppresses insulin production". Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 2015-02-17. doi:10.1038/nrendo.2015.20. 
  3. Conger, Krista (7 August 2014). "Researchers discover insulin-decreasing hormone in flies, humans". http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/02/researchers-discover-insulin-decreasing-hormone-in-flies-humans.html.