Endocrine Abstracts

Body composition is a major determinant of fitness and health. Many of the problems of aging are caused by detrimental changes in body composition. Hormones play a central role in the regulation of body composition. Our laboratory has been investigating the metabolic and molecular mechanisms of GH action and its interaction with sex steroids in the regulation body composition in adult human. The liver is an important site of physiological interaction as it is a sex steroid res...

Ken K Y Ho, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia AbstractKen Ho is a professor of Medicine at the University of New South Wales and is the Head, Pituitary Research Unit, Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Chairman, Department of Endocrinology, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.He graduated in medicine at the University of Sydney in 1975, undertook research studies towards a Doctora...