Opening remarks; paediatric endocrinology update - an overview; the essential roles of oestrogens in pubertal growth, epiphyseal fusion and bone turnover - lessons from mutations in the genes for aromatase and the oestrogen receptor; genetic defects in the control of growth hormone secretion; growth hormone therapy update on Thailand; review on the physical growth in primates; the molecular basis of hypopituitarism; the role of the insulin-like growth factor system in the developing brain; short stature caused by mutant growth hormone; growth hormone therapy - a survey; growth hormone insensitivity syndrome (Laron Dwarfism); recombitant human growth hormone therapy in infants with chronic renal failure; free-form insulin-like growth factor-I in circulation is normal in children with simple obesity; IGF-1 generation test on non-growth hormone-deficient short children; Turner Syndrome in Taiwan; the role of the GH-N gene abnormality in the development of growth hormone deficiency; final height after long-term growth hormone treatment in Thai children with Turner syndrome; growth hormone deficiency associated with pituitary stalk interruption syndrome; FGFR3 gene mutations in transmembrane domain in Chinese achondroplasia and hypochndroplasia patients.
