192nd Meeting for the Society for Endocrinology

Programme: Tuesday 4 December 2001

Mon 3 Dec | Tues 4 Dec| Attended Posters

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09:00 - 10:00 Wolfson Theatre
Plenary Lecture:
Asia and Oceania Medal Lecture
Chairperson: Franks S (London)
   
SP3 09:00 Fat regulates the neuroendocrine system; studies with leptin
Clarke IJ (Clayton, Australia)
            
10.00 - 10.30 COFFEE
                
10:30 - 12:30 Wolfson Theatre
Symposium 3:
Maternal and fetal responses to environmental challenges of feto-placental function

  

   
Chairperson: Poston L (London)
   
SP14 10:30 Placental restriction and fetal endocrinology during growth retardation
Owens JA (Adelaide, Australia)
SP15 11:00 Nutritional and endocrine imbalances during adolescent pregnancy
Wallace JM (Aberdeen)
SP16 11:30 Nutritional programming of fetal endocrinology & blood pressure control
Hanson MA (Southampton)
SP17 12:00 Environmental manipulation of feto-placental growth and endocrine function
Symonds ME (Nottingham) & Stephenson T
              
10:30 - 12:00 Council Chamber
Oral Communications 4:
Growth regulation
Chairperson: Logan A (Birmingham) & Baird A (San Diego, California)
   
OC18 10:30 Pars intermedia pro-gamma-melanotropin and a cleft protease, a mitotic conspiracy in the pituitary?
Lowry PJ, Lomthaisong K, Gladwell RT & Bicknell AB
OC19 10:45 Up-regulation of expression of cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 and prostaglandin E receptors (EP2 and EP4) in HeLa cells by seminal plasma
Sales KJ, Katz AA, Millar RP & Jabbour HN
OC20 11:00 A physiological role for pregnancy associated plasma protein E
Page NM & Lowry PJ
OC21
  
11:15
   
Periconceptual undernutrition in the sheep causes premature activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis resulting in preterm birth
Bloomfield FH, Oliver MH, Hawkins P, Challis JRG & Harding JE
OC22 11:30 Investigation of the mechanism of IGF-independent actions of IGFBP-4
Wright RJ, Perks CM, Holly JMP & Mason HD
OC23 11:45 Pituitary tumour shrinking during treatment of acromegaly with Sandostatin LAR
Jenkins PJ, Yeo P, Besser GM, Evanson J & Monson JP
       
12.00 - 13.00 Council Chamber
Clinical Endocrine Debate:
This house believes that endocrinologists should leave the management of metabolic bone disease to other specialists
Chairperson: Russell G (Oxford)
Proposer 1: Reid DM (Aberdeen) Opposer 1: Hosking D (Nottingham)
Proposer 2: Francis R (Newcastle) Opposer 2: Eastell R (Sheffield)
                     
12.30 - 13.00 LUNCH
                         
13.00 - 14.00 Library
Attended posters
Details of attended posters start on page 19
         
14:00 - 16:00 Wolfson Theatre
Symposium 4:
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology Symposium:
Receptor antagonists

 

  
Chairperson: Trainer PJ (Manchester)
 
SP18 14:00 Vasopressin receptor antagonists
Verbalis JG (Washington, USA)
SP19 14:30 Growth hormone antagonists
Ross RJM (Sheffield)
SP20 15:00 Calcium receptor antagonists
Nemeth EF (Ontario, Canada)
SP21 15:30 Structural basis of agonism and antagonism in the oestrogen receptor
Hubbard RE (York), Pike ACW, Brzozowski AM, Bonn T, Carlquist M & Gustafsson JA
                      
14:00 - 16:00 Council Chamber
Oral Communications 5:
Reproduction
Chairpersons: Milligan S (London) & Abayasekara R (London)
     
OC24 14:00 The activation of peripheral neurokinin receptors in the pathology of pre-eclampsia
Bell NJ, Graham GJ, Gibbins JM, Lowry PJ & Page NM
OC25 14:15 Imprinting of the bovine insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2)-gene
Klisch K, Looft C & Thomsen PD
OC26 14:30 Prolactin protects against ceramide (C2)-induced apoptosis in human ovarian granulosa cells (GC)
Perks CM, Wright RJ, Mason HD & Holly JMP
OC27
  
14:45
   
Ligand binding to mammalian and non-mammalian GnRH receptors apparently involves similar receptor contact sites in different spatial arrangements
Pfleger KDG, Ott TR & Millar RP
OC28
  
15:00
   
Effect of N-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids on prostaglandin production by ovine uterine epithelial cells in vitro
Cheng Z, Elmes M, Bainbridge DRJ, Abayasekara DRE & Wathes DC
OC29
  
15:15
  
Evidence for FSH induction of 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 in luteinized human granulosa cells
Lacey M & Whitehead SA
OC30
  
15:30
  
Role of EP1 and EP2 receptor signalling pathways in the steroidogenic response of human granulosa-lutein (GL) cells to prostaglandin (PG)
Chandras C, Harris TE, Lopez-Bernal A, Abayasekara DRE & Michael AE
OC31 15:45 Pregnancy outcomes in polycystic ovary syndrome
Garg S, Brady J, Seif M & Laing I
      
16.00 - 16.15 TEA
      
16:15 - 16:20 Wolfson Theatre
Awards
        
16:20 - 17:20 Wolfson Theatre
Plenary Lecture:
Society for Endocrinology Jubilee Medal Lecture
Chairperson: Franks S (London)
  
SP4 16:20 Recent studies in normal and abnormal growth hormone secretion
Besser GM (London)