Cartilage and Bone Development and Its Disorders ― 4th Espe Advanced Seminar in Developmental Endocrinology, Stockholm, June 30 - July 1, 2010

For physicians, endocrinologists, and pediatric endocrinologists who treat patients with growth disorders, osteoporosis, osteogenesis imperfecta, and skeletal dysplasias, Camacho-Hubner et al.(pediatric endocrinology, Karolinska Institutet and U. Hospital, Sweden) compile 11 papers that review bone and cartilage development, growth, and disease, and new treatment strategies, regulatory signals, and molecular mechanisms in relation to diseases affecting them. Contributed by researchers working in developmental biology, endocrinology, pediatrics, and other fields in Europe, the US, and Israel, the papers were drawn from the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology Fourth Advanced Seminar and cover areas such as the local regulation of growth plate cartilage, new perspectives on the use of stem cells and cartilage tissue engineering, chondrocyte proliferation and differentiation, growth plate senescence and catch-up growth, endocrine regulation of longitudinal growth, estrogen signaling in growth plate cartilage, and methods to study cartilage and bone development. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)