Hot Topics Abstracts

Hot Topic 1
Identification and Isolation of Murine Pituitary Tumor Progenitor Cells
Ines Donangelo, Shiri Gutman, Kolja Wawrowsky, Vera Chesnokova, Shlomo Melmed
Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Hot Topic 2
Evidence for a local natriuretic peptide system in pituitary GH3 somatotropes
Iain Thompson, Kim Jonas, Annisa Chand, Caroline Wheeler-Jones, Rob Fowkes
Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom

Hot Topic 3
Specific, siRNA Mediated Depletion of PTAG is Associated with an Attenuated Apoptotic Response in Pituitary Cells
Farsana Rowther, William E. Farrell
University of Keele, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

Hot Topic 4
Growth Factor Amplification by Upregulation of Epidermal Growth Factor Substrate
(Eps8) in Human Pituitary Tumors
Mei Xu1, Lynnette Shorts-Cary1, Bette K-Demasters2, Kevin Lillehei3, Margaret E Wierman4
1Dept Medicine, UCDHSC, Aurora, CO, United States, 2Dept Pathology, UCDHSC, Aurora, CO, United States, 3Dept Neurosurgery, UCDHSC, Aurora, CO, United Kingdom, 4Research Service, VAMC, Denver, CO, United Kingdom

Hot Topic 5
Molecular mechanism of glucocorticoid resistance in Cushing disease
Steve Bilodeau1, Sophie Vallette-Kasic1, Dominique Figarella-Branger2, Thierry Brue2, André Lacroix3, France Berthelet3, Dalia Batista4, Constantine Stratakis4, Jeanette Hanson5, Björn Meij5, Jacques Drouin1
1Laboratoire de génétique moléculaire. Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2Laboratoire Interactions cellulaires neuroendocriniennes (ICNE), Marseille, France, 3Department of Medicine, Research Center, Hotel-Dieu du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada, 4Section on Endocrinology and Genetics (SEGEN), Developmental Endocrinology Branch (DEB), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 5Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

Hot Topic 6
Reduced Sympathetic Metabolites in Urine of Obese Patients with Childhood Craniopharyngioma
Hermann L. Muller1, Ursel Gebhardt1, Donald Hunneman2, Christian Roth2
1Dep. of Pediatrics, Klinikum Oldenburg gGmbH, Oldenburg, Germany, 2Dep. of Pediatrics, University Hospital Gottingen

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In addition, a young investigator selected from those submitting abstracts will give a NEW and SPECIAL LECTURE this year called The Pituitary Society Young Investigator Presentation.