Montreal has had a longstanding interest in somatostatin. Two years ago when the final planning began for the International Con- gress of Endocrinology in Quebec City in July 1984, we seized the op- portunity for having a separate Satellite Symposium on somatostatin here in Montreal. We felt that after a decade of uniformly vigorous growth in somatostatin research, the opportune moment had arrived for a review of the most significant past developments and for setting the directions for the future. Knowing the futility of trying to cover every aspect of the burgeoning somatostatin field in a...
Montreal has had a longstanding interest in somatostatin. Two years ago when the final planning began for the International Con- gress of Endocrinolog...