A detailed program, including abstracts, for the entire meeting is available upon request to members of the media.
Arrangements for on-site interviews, or telephone interviews during the meeting can be arranged through APS from Mayer Resnick (cell: 301-332-4402, mresnick@the-aps.org) or Stacy Brooks 301-634-7253 (sbrooks@the-aps.org). From Oct. 5-9, the onsite phone number in Austin is 512-482-8000, room 602.
The meeting is cosponsored by APS, the American College of Sports Medicine and the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. Additional support through unrestricted educational grants came from: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMSD), Gatorade Sports Sciences Institute, Pfizer Inc. and the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM).
Summaries of 16 selected presentations at the Austin exercise meeting Oct. 6-9, 2004.
Ronald L. Terjung, chair of the meeting organizing committee and professor in the Department of Biomedical Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia, College of Veterinary Medicine, noted that in addition to the 12 symposia of invited speakers, ample time each day has been set aside for discussing the over 380 presentations with the authors.
Below are summaries of a few of the top presentations, with their program references.
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Charles H. Turner (Indiana University, Indianapolis)
Mechanisms for increasing bone mass by exercise.
Mechanical loading through exercise builds bond mass, with the effects most pronounced during skeletal growth and development; rest periods reduce the effect of desensitization though it's unclear how this process is effected.
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David Proctor and De
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