Endocrine Abstracts

The neuroendocrine cascade regulating episodic growth hormone (GH) secretion plays a central role in post-natal growth and metabolism. Intermingling of GH cells with other pituitary cell types and the complex distribution of the hypothalamic GHRH neurons makes both the cell types difficult targets for selective physical or chemical manipulation. On the other hand, they are excellent targets for physiological transgenesis since their major secretory products derive from highly ...

Iain CAF Robinson, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London, UK AbstractIain Robinson was born in 1949 and educated at the King Edward VII Grammar School in Sheffield before going to Worcester College, Oxford, to study physiology and medicine. Awarded first class honours in physiology and with medical studies deferred, Iain received an MRC studentship Award for studies on endocrine physiology in the D...