Different sub-type receptors of somatostatin were found on the surface of cell membrane. 多种人类肿瘤上表达有生长抑素受体。
Because of its growth hormone inhibitory effects, octreotide has been used as a clinical therapeutic agent to treat a wide variety of tumors which contain somatostatin receptors. 因为奥曲肽具有生长激素抑制作用，其作为治疗包含有生长抑素受体的大多数肿瘤的临床药物已被广泛使用。
