Endocrine Abstracts

Mammalian growth is an extraordinarily complex phenomenon, regulated by a panoply of genetic and environmental factors. In light of this, it is all the more extraordinary that the combination of targeted gene knock-out studies and human mutational analysis has convincingly demonstrated that the Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system is responsible for a significant portion of both intrauterine and postnatal growth. IGF production in utero is essentially growth hormone ...

Ron G Rosenfeld, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA., USA. AbstractRon G Rosenfeld, MD, is the Senior Vice-President for Medical Affairs at the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health at Stanford University. He is Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University, as well as Professor and Chair (emeritus) of Pediatrics and of Cell and Developmental Biology at Oregon...