ECE2006 - Society for Endocrinology

Monday 3 April 2006
07.15-08.00 Meet the Expert 5:
Papillary thyroid cancer
management
CLYDE AUDITORIUM
Chair: I Szabolcz (Hungary)
I Hay (Rochester, USA)
07.15-08.00 Meet the Expert 6:
Adrenal carcinoma
LOMOND AUDITORIUM
Chair: M Terzolo (Orbassano, Italy)
M Reincke (Munich, Germany)
07.15-08.00 Meet the Expert 7:
Transgenic techniques
HALL 1
Chair: I Robinson (London, UK)
M Poutanen (Turku, Finland)
07.15-08.00 Meet the Expert 8:
Pitfalls in signal transduction
research
FORTH ROOM
Chair: L Hunyady (Budapest, Hungary)
W Knepel (Göttingen, Germany)
08.10-10.10 Symposium 5:
Novel peptides in reproduction
CLYDE AUDITORIUM
Chairs: R Millar (Edinburgh, UK) &
A Milewicz (Wroclaw, Poland)
S26 08.10 The kisspeptin-GPR54 axis
in reproduction
M Tena-Sempere (Cordoba, Spain)
S27 08.40 Use of recombinant leptin in women
with hypothalamic amenorrhea
C Welt (Boston, USA)
S28 09.10 A genomic analysis of polypeptide
ligands and their receptors: examples
of relaxin and LGR families
T Hsu (Stanford, USA)
S29 09.40 Novel recombinant gonadotropin
molecules in human reproductive
dysfunction
B Mannaerts (Oss, The Netherlands)
08.10-10.10 Oral Communications 3:
Clinical endocrinology
HALL 1
Chairs: M Grussendorf (Stuttgart, Germany) &
S Lamberts (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
OC17 08.10 Copeptin, a precursor of vasopressin, in
critically ill patients - an observational
study
M Christ-Crain, N Morgenthaler, J Struck,
A Bergmann & B Mueller
8th European Congress of Endocrinology
OC18 08.25 Endoscope-assisted pituitary surgery for
functioning and non-functioning pituitary
adenomas. The experience of the first 80
patients in a single centre
PL Hanson, SM Joshi, G Alusi, HI Sabin,
WM Drake & JP Monson
OC19 08.40 Disease remission in long term treated
acromegalic patients after somatostatin
analogs withdrawal
C L Ronchi, V Varca, A Lania, M Arosio,
A Spada & P Beck-Peccoz
OC20 08.55 A European prospective real-life
observational study of quality of life in
patients with acromegaly
SM Webb, A Colao, P Caron, M Carvalheiro,
E Ertürk, A Pokrajac-Simeunovic, J Schopohl,
S Tsagarakis, IV Pearson, X Badia, S Caglio &
B Vincenzi
OC21 09.10 Adjuvant radiation therapy of the tumor
bed prevents local recurrences in
adrenocortical carcinoma
M Fassnacht, S Hahner, B Polat, AC Koschker,
M Flentje & B Allolio
OC22 09.25 Detection of phaeochromocytoma: the
emerging role of plasma metanephrines
RT Peaston, SG Ball, R Quinton, RA James,
S Pearce, TWJ Lennard & RDG Neely
OC23 09.40 Improved prognosis in midgut carcinoid
patients by treating raised circulating
neurokinin A (NKA)
JES Ardill, BJ Johnston, GB Turner, A McGinty
& DR McCance
OC24 09.55 Low testosterone and atherogenic
lipid profile in aging men
JI Mäkinen, A Perheentupa, K Irjala,
P Pöllänen, J Mäkinen, I Huhtaniemi &
O Raitakari
08.10-10.10 Symposium 6:
Hot topics
LOMOND AUDITORIUM
Chairs: Pierre Bouloux (London, UK) &
J Köhrle (Berlin, Germany)
08.10 The obesity epidemic glutamate and
umami regulation of food intake
J Tresguerres (Madrid, Spain)
08.35 Transthyretin and neuropeptide processing
M Mendes Sousa (Porto, Portugal)
09.00 Tissue specific effects of a novel plant
derived SERM: 8-prenyl-naringenin
WD Schleuning (Berlin, Germany)
09.25 Genetic polymorphism redefine setpoints
of the pituitary thyroid axis
R Peeters (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
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