International Symposium on Endocrinology and Development
15th Symposium, Paris, November 1997. "Hormone Research", Vol 48, Suppl. 4. Supplement Issue: Hormone Research 1997, Vol. 48, Suppl. 4
Published on 9. October 1997
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IV, 76 pages
978-3-8055-6582-0 (ISBN)
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This text contains a collection of papers taken from an international symposium on endocrinology and development. Topics discussed include the functional role of insulin-like growth factor binding proteins, growth hormone therapy and malignancy and gonadotrophin and thyrotrophin receptors.
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Leptin - the voice of the adipose tissue, W.F. Blum; functional role of insulin-like growth factor binding proteins, M.B. Ranke and M. Elmlinger; disturbances in the growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor axis in children and adolescents with different eating disorders, J. Argente et al; mechanisms of growth failure in non-growth-hormone-deficient children of short stature, C.L. Boguszewski et al; growth hormone treatment of children with short stature secondary to intra-uterine growth retardation - effect of 2 years' treatment and 2 years' follow-up, M. Rosilio et al; growth hormone therapy and malignancy, S.M. Shalet et al; gonadotrophin and thyrotrophin receptors, E. Milgrom et al; effect of growth hormone on cardiac function, G. Lombardi et al; resistance to thyroid hormone, V.K.K. Chatterjee; new pathophysiological mechanisms for hyperthyroidism, G. Vassart; new aspects of thyroid immunity, A.P. Weetman; genetics of type 1 insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, P. Froguel; immune mechanisms leading to type 1 insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, C. Boitard et al; Sardinia - a battlefield approach to type 1 diabetes epidemiology, G.F. Bottazzo et al; insulin in diabetes prevention, V.K. Ramiya and N.K. Maclaren; management of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in adolescents, M. Vanelli et al.