“…SRIF‐14 and SRIF‐28 were purchased from Bachem AG (Bubendorf, Switzerland). CH‐275, octreotide, Tyr 3 ‐octreotide, BIM 23027, L ‐363,301, L ‐362,855, D ‐Tyr 8 CYN 154806 (Feuerbach et al ., 2000; Nunn et al ., 2002), L ‐797,591, L ‐796,778 (Rohrer et al ., 1998), NNC 26‐9100 (Liu et al ., 1998), compounds 1–4 (Nunn et al ., 2003b), compounds 6, 7a and 7e (Hay et al ., 2001), SRA 880 (Hoyer et al ., 2002), compound 4k (Poitout et al ., 2001) were synthesised at Novartis Pharma AG (Basel, Switzerland). L ‐803,087 and L ‐817,818 (Rohrer et al ., 1998) were kindly provided by Merck Research Laboratories (Rahway, NJ, U.S.A.).…”