| What would the Expert do? |
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| 08.30-09.30 |
King’s Suite, HIC |
Chair: Barth JH (Leeds) |
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Obesity |
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Finer N (Luton) |
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| What would the Expert do? |
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| 08.30-09.30 |
Spa Suite, Majestic Hotel |
Chair: Jeffcoate WJ (Nottingham) |
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Addison’s |
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Monson JP (London) |
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| NACB Thyroid Testing Guidelines |
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| GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY ABBOTT DIAGNOSTICS |
| 08.30-09.30 |
Royal Hall, HIC |
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Lazarus JH (Cardiff) & Feldt-Rasmussen
U (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
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| Debate: Patenting is bad
for science |
| 09.45-11.00 |
Main Auditorium, HIC |
Chair: Brady G (Manchester) |
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For the motion: Loudon ASI (Manchester) |
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Against the motion: Baird A (London) |
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| TEA/COFFEE |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Level 5, HIC |
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| Molecular Endocrinology
Workshop |
| 11.30-12.30 |
King’s Suite, HIC |
Chair: Fowler PA (Aberdeen) |
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Proteomics |
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Aitken A (Edinburgh) |
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| Symposium 7: Parturition
and fetal stress - hormonal strategies for ensuring life after birth |
| 11.30-13.30 |
Royal Hall, HIC |
Chair: Linton E (Oxford) |
| S30 |
11.30 |
New insights into lung maturation
- the role of interleukin-1 |
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Bry K (Cincinnati) |
| S31 |
12.00 |
Parturition and fetal stress: hormonal
strategies for ensuring life after birth |
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Symonds ME (Nottingham), Mostyn
A, Budge H & Stephenson T |
| S32 |
12.30 |
Thyroid hormone in the fetal brain |
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Kilby MD (Birmingham) |
| S33 |
13.00 |
The prolactin receptor and pregnancy |
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Binart N (Paris), Baran N, Bachelot
A & Kelly PA |
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| Clinical Management Workshop
4: Why, why not and when to irradiate the pituitary |
| 11.30-13.30 |
Main Auditorium, HIC Chair: Newell-Price
J (Sheffield) & Monson JP (London) |
| S43 |
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Radiotherapy for pituitary disease |
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Gittoes NJL (Birmingham) |
| S44 |
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Radiobiology, conventional fractionated
pituitary radiotherapy and stereotactic LINAC radiotherapy |
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Swords F (London) |
| S45 |
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Gamma-knife radiotherapy of pituitary
tumours |
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Kemeny A (Sheffield) |
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| Oral Communications 6: Neuroendocrinology |
| 11.30-13.30 |
Spa Suite, Majestic Hotel Chair:
Christian H (Oxford) |
| OC41 |
11.30 |
11b-hydroxysteroid
dehydrogenase type 1 (11bHSD1) is expressed
in human brain: inhibition with carbenoxolone improves cognitive function
in healthy elderly men |
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Sandeep TC, MacLullich AMJ, Yau
JLW, Noble J, Walker BR & Seckl JR
NOVARTIS
AWARDS WINNER (NP2), ALSO PRESENTED AT TWO DEDICATED POSTER SESSIONS:
TUESDAY AT 14.00–14.30 AND WEDNESDAY
AT 13.30–14.00, BOTH IN HALL D, HIC |
| OC42 |
11.45 |
A possible role for the melanocortin
3 receptor in the control of the hypothalamo–pituitary gonadal axis |
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Stanley S, Davies S, Small C,
Gardiner J, Ghatei MA, Smith D & Bloom SR |
| OC43 |
12.00 |
CGRP-a inhibits
food intake via the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus partly
through the CGRP-type 1 receptor |
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Dhillo WS, Small CJ, Russell
SH, Seth A, Murphy KG, Ghatei MA & Bloom SR |
| OC44 |
12.15 |
MSH precursor peptides in rat cerebrospinal
fluid: evidence that pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) processing is regulated
with respect to energy balance |
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Pritchard LE, Oliver RL, McLoughlin
JD, Birtles S, Turnbull AV & White A |
| OC45 |
12.30 |
Evidence for a role of the ATP-binding
cassette transporter-A1 (ABC-A1) in the externalisation of annexin I from
folliculostellate cells |
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Epton MJ, Chapman LP, Morris
JF, Buckingham JC & Christian HC |
| OC46 |
12.45 |
Chronic CNS administration of Agouti
related protein (Agrp) reduces energy expenditure |
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Small CJ, Liu YL, Stanley SA,
Connoley IP, Kennedy A, Stock MJ & Bloom SR |
| OC47 |
13.00 |
A2B adenosine receptors mediate
the adenosine-induced increase in cell growth and IL-6 expression in pituitary
folliculostellate cells |
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Rees DA, Lewis MD, Lewis BM,
Scanlon MF & Ham J |
| OC48 |
13.15 |
Hypothalamic actions of neuromedin
U |
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Wren AM, Small CJ, Abbott CR,
Ghatei MA & Bloom SR |
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