194th Meeting for the Society for Endocrinology

Programme: Monday 3 November 2003

Mon 3 Nov | Tues 4 Nov | Wed 5 Nov | Attended Posters

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09.30 – 10.00

Osler Room

 

 

Coffee

     

 

 

10.00 – 11.00

Wolfson Theatre

 

 

Plenary Lecture 1:

 

 

Society for Endocrinology Asia and Oceanic Medal Lecture

 

 

Chair: Bloom S (London)

         

S1

10.00

Signalling by the growth hormone receptor – new mechanisms

 

 

Waters MJ (Queensland, Australia)

 

 

 

11.00 – 13.00

Wolfson Theatre

 

 

Symposium 1:

 

 

Newer concepts of mineralocorticoid action

 

 

Chairperson: Walker B (Edinburgh)

     

S5

11.00

Extra-adrenal aldosterone synthesis and its role in non-classical target tissues

 

 

Delcayre C (Paris, France), Heymes C, Nehme J, Ambroisine ML, Robidel E, De Angelis N & Milliez P

        

S6

11.30

Genetic disorders of mineralocorticoids

 

 

Stewart PM (Birmingham)

         

S7

12.00

Diagnosis of hypoaldosteronism

 

 

Connell J (Glasgow)

         

S8

12.30

Treating primary aldosteronism with new aldosterone receptor antagonists

 

 

Young WF (Rochester, USA)

     

 

 

11.00 – 13.00

Seligman Theatre

 

 

Young Endocrinologist Session:

 

 

Basic Science Review Lecture

 

 

Chair: Hillier S (Edinburgh) & Davis JRE (Manchester)

         

S4

11.00

Y Are Men The Weaker Sex?

 

 

Charchar FJ (Glasgow)

     

 

 

 

 

Oral Communication 1:

 

 

Young Endocrinologist Session

 

 

Chair: Hillier S (Edinburgh) & Davis JRE (Manchester) 

         

OC1

11.30

*Bicuspid aortic valve is associated with increased arterial stiffness in adult women with Turner syndrome

 

 

Ostberg JE, Donald AE,Storry C, Lloyd N, McCarthy C, Halcox J & Conway GS

     

 

 

OC2

11.45

*The nature of the quality of life impairment in adult GHD survivors of cancer and their response to GH replacement therapy

 

 

Tolhurst-Cleaver S, Mukherjee A, Smethurst L & Shalet SM

     

 

 

OC3

12.00

*Recurrent painful unilateral gynaecomastia with relapsing hyperthyroidism

 

 

Jayapaul M, Williams MR, Davies DP & Large DM

     

 

 

OC4

12.15

*Influence of annexin 1 gene deletion on dopaminergic cell numbers in themid-brain

 

 

Shah AN, McArthur S, Morris JF, Flower RJ, Buckingham JC & Gillies G

     

 

 

OC5

12.30

Non-genomic progesterone receptors in human endometrium

 

 

Harding OAK, Bramley TA, Critchley HOD, Kelly RW & Jabbour HN

     

 

 

OC6

12.45

Crosstalk between IGF signalling and cadherin-mediated cell adhesion promotes myogenic differentiation

 

 

Lovett FA, Gonzalez MI, Carter EJ, Cobb LJ, Salih DAM, Tripathi G, Holding C & Pell JM

     

 

 

13.00 – 13.30

Osler Room

 

 

Lunch

     
13.00 - 13.30 Wolfson Theatre
    Society for Endocrinology AGM

     

 

 

13.30 – 14.30

Library

 

 

Attended Posters

     

 

 

13.30 – 14.00

Sloane Room

 

 

Nurses Session:

 

 

Clinial Update Session

     

 

 

14.00 – 16.30

Sloane Room

 

 

Nurses Session:

 

 

Steroid replacement therapy

 

 

Chair: Carson M (Edinburgh) & Holmes C (Cambridge)

     

 

 

S23

14.00

Steroid replacement therapy

 

 

Howlett TA

         

S24

15.00

A simplfied protocol for hydrocortisone replacement therapy in patients with adrenal insufficiency

 

 

Mah PM, Jenkins RC, Rostami-Hodjegan A, Newell-Price J, Doane A, Ibbotson V, Tucket GT & Ross RJ

     

 

 

S25

15.30

An audit of self-care of patients on hydrocortisone replacement therapy

 

 

Kieffer VM, Robinson CL & Howlett TA

        

S26

16.00

Steroid replacement therapy: the challenges of medication management in adrenal insufficiency, with reference to insights from patients' experiences

 

 

White KG, Baker SJ & Elliott A

     

 

 

14.30 – 16.30

Wolfson Theatre

 

 

Symposium 2:

 

 

Gaseous signalling

 

 

Chair: Forsling M (London)

         

S9

14.30

An overview of gaseous signalling by nitric oxide

 

 

Moncada S (London)

    

 

 

S10

15.00

HIF and cancer

 

 

Ratcliffe PJ (Oxford)

         

S11

15.30

NO signalling and endogenous methylarginies

 

 

Vallance P (London)

         

S12

16.00

The heme oxygenase-carbon monoxide pathway in the control of neuroendocrine function

 

 

Grossman AB (London)

     

 

 

14.30 – 16.30

Seligman Theatre

 

 

Oral Communication 2:

 

 

Reproduction

 

 

Chair: Franks S (London)

         

OC7

14.30

IGF-I stimulates early follicular development in cultured human ovarian tissue

 

 

Stubbs S , Zachery-Jennings C, Margara R, Trew G, Lavery S, Franks S & Hardy K

     

 

 

OC8

14.45

Inverse relationship between aromatase and connective tissue growth factor during rat granulosa cell differentiation

 

 

Harlow CR ,Bradshaw AC, Rae M & Hillier SG

 

 

 

OC9

15.00

Prokineticins (EG-VEGF and Bv8) and their receptors (PKR1 and PKR2) in the human endometrium

 

 

Jabbour HN, Battersby S, Critchley HOD & Millar RP

 

 

 

OC10

15.15

Prostaglandin EP2 receptor promotes VEGF expression via the EGFR and ERK1/2 signalling

 

 

Sales KJ, Gallagher R, Mausdlay S & Jabbour HN

 

 

 

OC11

15.30

Effect of dietary N-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids on prostaglandins produced by maternal intercotyledonary endometrial tissues in late pregnant ewes

 

 

Cheng Z, Elmes M, Kirkup SE, Abayasekara DRE & Wathes DC

     

OC12

15.45

Serum c-reactive protein (CRP) is related to age and body mass index (BMI) in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) but not to insulin

 

 

Laing I, Yates AP, Mather E & Pickersgill M

     

OC13

16.00

Resistance to insulin-dependent glucose metabolism in human granulosa-luteal cells from anovulatory women with polycystic ovaries

 

 

Rice S, Christoforides N, Gadd C, Nickolaou D, Seyani L, Donaldson M, Margara R, Hardy K & Franks S

      

 

 

OC14

16.15

Expression and signaling characteristics of orexin receptors in the human male reproductive system

 

 

Karteris EK, Chen JC & Randeva HSR

    

 

 

16.30 – 16.45

Osler Room

 

 

Tea

    

 

 

16.45 – 17.45

Wolfson Theatre

 

 

Plenary Lecture:

 

 

Society for Endocrinology

 

 

European Medal Lecture

 

 

Chair: Bloom S (London)

         

S2

16.45

Ghrelin and synthetic GHS

 

 

Ghigo E (Turin, Italy)