explain in brief as to why somatostatin is not a systemic hormone ?

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Systemic hormones are the hormones that are synthesised by one specific gland. Since somatostatin is secreted by various glands like the hypothalamus of the brain, delta cells of islets of Langerhans in the pancreas and argentaffin cells of the digestive tract, so it is a local hormone not systemic hormone.

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