Chair's Introduction (J.D. Veldhuis)

Endocrine aspects of healthy ageing in men(A.W. van den Beld and S.W.J. Lamberts)

Ageing, stress and the brain (B.J. Carroll)

Alterations in the ageing corticotropic stress-response axis (P. Bjorntorp)

Male reproductive ageing: using the Brown Norway rat as a model for man (C. Wang et al)

Male reproductive ageing: human fertility, androgens and hormone dependent disease (D.J. Handelsman)

Mechanisms of conjoint failure of the somatotropic and gonadal axes in ageing men (J.D. Veldhuis et al)

Effects of growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor 1 deficiency on ageing and 1ongevity (Z. Laron)

The role of the insulin-like growth factor 1 and insulin in ageing and atherosclerosis (A. Ruiz-Torres)

The ageing female reproductive axis -1 Henry G. Burger et al)

The ageing female reproductive axis II: ovulatory changes with perimenopause (J. C. Prior)

The thyroid axis in ageing (H Leitolf et al)

Critical illness as a model of hypothalamic ageing (G. Van den Berghe and S.M. Shalet)

Glucose tolerance, glucose utilization and insulin secretion in ageing (D.Elahi et al)

Endocrine causes of age-related bone loss and osteoporosis (B.L. Riggs)

Ageing and water homeostasis (D. Robertson et al)

Summing Up (J.D. Veldhuis)