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MATERIAL AND QUESTIONS FOR SEP 29, 2008

The questions for Week 4 (Sept 29, 2008) are:

1. The level of many hormones, including growth hormone, decrease with age. What do you think of the general strategy of doing growth hormone replacement in older humans to rejuvenate them?

2. Would you generally recommend growth hormone therapy for people born as dwarfs, midgets, etc?.


Here you may access literature to be discussed on Sep 29, 2008

Brown-Borg, 1996

Coschigano, 2003

Suh, 2008

Tissenbaum & Guarente, 2001

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