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Meet the Professor
Sex hormones and the skeleton
Saturday 13 May 2006
13.00-14.00
Topics to be covered
- Models to study sex steroid action on bone:
Cellular, animal, and human.
- Current understanding of mechanisms of
sex steroid action on bone.
- Clinical implications and applications
of mechanistic studies.
Educational goals
- To review strengths and weaknesses of various approaches
to understanding sex steroid action on bone.
- Understand, based on
available evidence, how sex steroids regulate bone metabolism.
- Review
the physiological consequences of sex steroid deficiency on bone.
- Translate mechanistic information into current and future treatment
approaches using sex steroids/analogues for osteoporosis.
Target audience
Physicians/clinical investigators/clinicians.
Teaching methods
- Brief didactic overview, with specific questions
that require audience participation.
- Several clinical scenarios.
- Open discussion/question and answer
session.
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