IBMS/ECTS 2001 - SHORT COMMUNICATIONS: Hormones

IBMS/ECTS 2001 - PROGRAM and ABSTRACTS

HORMONES

Chairs: Joseph Caverzasio (Geneva/Switzerland)
Toshio Matsumoto (Tokushima/Japan)

Saturday, June 9, 2001
11:30 - 12:30 Auditorium

The abstract text of short communications (prefix SC) can be found in the Abstracts section. Click on the Abstract number.

11:30 SC34 S

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-ß2 REVERSES THE INCREASED ADIPOCYTE GENE EXPRESSION INDUCED BY SKELETAL UNLOADING IN RAT MARROW STROMAL CELLS

S. Ahdjoudj, F. Lasmoles, X. Holy, E. Zerath, P. J. Marie*

INSERM U349 affiliated CNRS, Paris, France; IMASSA-CERMA, Dept of Aerospatial Physiology, Brétigny sur Orge, France

11.35 SC35 S

MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND APOPTOSIS INDUCED BY A-RING ANALOGUES OF 1ALPHA,25-DIHYDROXYVITAMIN D₃

T. Okano*, K. Nakagawa, K. Ozono, N. Kubodera, K. Mikami

Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan; Osaka Medical Center for Maternal and Child Health, Osaka, Japan; Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

11:40 SC36 S

PTHrP AND PTH1 RECEPTOR EXPRESSION AND TONIC EFFECTS OF PERIPHERAL RECEPTOR GENE DELIVERY IN RENAL VESSELS OF SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RATS (SHR)

T. Massfelder*, N. Taesch, A. Eichinger, S. Fritsch, B. Escande, M. Barthelmebs, J. J. Helwig

University Louis Pasteur Medical School, E 0015 INSERM, Strasbourg, France

11:45 SC37 S

THE CAPACITY OF OSTEOBLASTIC CELLS TO RESPOND TO PTH STIMULATION IS MODULATED BY CONNEXIN43-MEDIATED GAP-JUNCTIONAL COMMUNICATION

G. D'Ippolito, P. Hernandez, G. A. Howard, B. A. Roos, P. C. Schiller*

GRECC and Research Service, VA Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA; University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA; State of Florida Teaching Nursing Home at Miami Jewish Home & Hospital for the Aged, Miami, FL, USA

11:50 SC38 S

MICE WITH A TARGETED GENE DELETION IN ESTROGEN RECEPTOR-b SHOW ENHANCED OSTEOGENIC RESPONSIVENESS TO 17b-ESTRADIOL

K. E. McDougall*, M. J. Perry, J. H. Tobias

University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

11:55 SC39 S

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR SPECIFICITY FOR THE REGULATION OF THE FEMALE SKELETON

M. Lindberg*, N. Andersson, N. Hellberg, J-Å. Gustafsson, C. Ohlsson

Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Novum, Huddinge, Sweden

12:00 SC40 S

ER-ALPHA, BUT NOT ER-BETA, MEDIATES THE REGULATION OF THE INSULIN–LIKE GROWTH FACTOR 1 GENE BY SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS

B. Fournier*, S. Gutzwiller, T. Dittmar, G. Matthias, P. Steenbergh, P. Matthias

Arthritis & Bone Metabolism Therapeutic Area, Novartis Pharma Research, 4002 Basel, Switzerland; Friedrich Miescher Institute, 4002 Basel, Switzerland; Department of Physiological Chemistry, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

12:05 SC41 S

SIGNALLING NETWORKS IN THE MEMBRANE ACTION OF ANDROGENS IN MALE OSTEOBLASTS

M. Lieberherr*, Y. Zagar

CNRS UPR 1524, INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France

12:10 SC42 S

PENTOXIFYLLINE ACTIVATES MAPK CASCADES AND PROMOTES OSTEOBLAST DIFFERENTIATION BY A MECHANISM INDEPENDENT OF PROTEIN KINASE A ACTIVATION

G. Rawadi*, F. Ferrer, S. Spinelle-Jaegle, S. Roman-Roman, Y. Bouali, R. Baron

Bone Disease Group, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Aventis Pharma., France; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

12:15 SC43 S

INVOLVEMENT OF THE MAP-KINASE AND SRC-KINASE PATHWAYS IN THE NUCLEAR TRANSLOCATION OF THE OF THE AP-1 FAMILY MEMBERS IN ROS17/2.8 OSTEOBLAST-LIKE CELLS SUBMITTED TO CHANGES IN MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT

C. Granet*, A. Guignandon, O. Akhouayri, C. Alexandre, M. H. Lafage-Proust

INSERM EM9901, J Monnet University, St-Etienne, France

12:20 SC44 S

PROSTAGLANDINS REGULATE FGF-2 AND FGF RECEPTOR EXPRESSION AND SUBCELLULAR LOCALIZATION IN OSTEOBLASTS

M. G. Sabbieti*, L. Marchetti, M. Menghi, S. Materazzi, G. Menghi, L. G. Raisz, M. M. Hurley

Dept. of Comparative Morphological & Biochemical Sciences, Univ. of Camerino, Camerino, Italy; Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy; Div. of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Univ. of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA

All Short Communications will be displayed as posters throughout the conference. Those presented in this session will be attended during Poster Session 3 which follows.

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