Endocrine Abstracts

The nature of the hypothalamic factors which control GH secretion in animals and man have emerged since the description of somatostatin (SS) in the early 1970s. Confusion originally arose when the ubiquitous distribution and apparent non-specificity of the actions of SS were established. Understanding of the paracrine nature of SS's action and the dependence of the specificity of its effects upon the locus of secretion and its short half-life in the circulation provided for an...

Michael Besser, St Bartholomew's and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK AbstractProfessor Michael Besser qualified in medicine in 1960 at the Medical School of St Bartholomew's Hospital, and then undertook a number of junior medical posts there and at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and the Royal Brompton Hospital. He started his academic work initially as junior lecturer in therapeutics i...