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21st European Congress of Endocrinology

Lyon, France
18 May 2019 - 21 May 2019

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18-21 May 2019, Lyon, France

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New tracers for PET in humans: Hopes, aims and current evidence

Gormsen Lars Christian

Positron emission tomography (PET) using the glucose analog tracer fluoro-deoxy-glucose (FDG) is today a widely available and highly useful functional imaging modality. Thus, FDG-PET has proved its clinical worth in particularly malignancy detection and treatment monitoring and is now often a first-line choice in the diagnostics of a range of diseases. However, PET is also an excellent tool for non-invasive measurement of metabolic processes, pathophysiology and pharmacokineti...

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Genetically tailored pig models in translational endocrine and metabolic research

Wolf Eckhard

The pig is an interesting model species for translational endocrine and metabolic research. Many organ systems relevant for endocrine research, including pancreas and gastrointestinal tract, are more similar to the corresponding human organs than those of other species. The human-like size and weight of pigs allows direct transfer of medical products, surgical techniques and in vivo imaging techniques to applications in human patients. Moreover, metabolic tests, such ...

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The gravitostat – possible relation to hormones

Jansson John-Olov

There are several regulatory systems the body that keep body functions, like body temperature and blood glucose, constant. In this study we have added and removed weight loads from experimental animals and measured the effects on biological body weight. The results of these experiments indicate that there is a novel regulatory mechanism to keep the body weight constant, mostly by adjusting the body fat mass. The mechanism was dependent on intact bone cells. We hypothesize that...