Conference Description
This satelllite meeting of the Prolactin GRC (January 30 - February 4, 2000) is sponsored by the American Autoimmune Related Disease Association (AARDA), and aims to provide clinicians and basic scientists a forum in which they can critically discuss and assess the role of PRL in various autoimmune and immune diseases.
Friday afternoon (2/4/00) (2 - 6 pm) | Autoimmune Diseases |
Chair:
Sara Walker, U. Missouri, Columbia
- Noel Rose, Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore
"What is autoimmune disease?"
- Dr. Bevra Hahn, UCLA School of Medicine
"Why is SLE a disease of women? Is it in the sex hormones?"
- Sara Walker, U. Missouri, Columbia
"Effects of PRL and bromocriptine therapy in SLE"
- Robert McMurray, U. Mississippi, Jackson
"PRL modulation of autoimmunity in the B/W mouse model of SLE"
- Ameae Walker, U. C. Riverside, Riverside
"PRL and γ δ T cell development"
- Brigitte Bouchard, INSERM, Paris, France
"Prolactin is a survival factor for androgen-deprived rat dorsal and lateral prostate epithelium in organ culture"
- Betty Diamond, Albert Einstein Medical School, New York City
"Estrogen effects on B cell fate"
Friday evening (2/4/00) (7:30 - 9:30 pm) | Signal Transduction |
Chair:
David Montgomery, University of Arizona, Tucson
- Li-yuan Yu-Lee, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
"PRL signaling and cross talk"
- Charles Clevenger, U. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"Novel actions of PRL"
- Arthur Buckley, U. Cincinnati, Cincinnati
"PRL signaling to Pim-1 transcription"
Saturday morning (2/5/00) (8:30 - 12 noon) | Neuro-Immune Interactions |
Chair:
Esther Sternberg, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
- Esther Sternberg, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
"The role of the HPA axis in susceptibility and resistance to inflammatory disease"
- George Chrousos, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
"Neuroendocrine regulation of the IL-12,TNFα/IL-10 Balance: Clinical implications"
- Elisabeth Hooghe-Peters, Vrije U., Brussels, Belgium
"Effects of PRL on leukocytes in vitro"
- Lina Matera, U. Turin, Turin, Italy
"Different roles of PRL in hemopoiesis and immune maintenance"
- Susan Richards, Genzyme Corp., Boston
"PRL in immunocompromised situations"
Saturday afternoon departure after lunch (2/5/00) |