[The team approach].

Teamwork is emerging like a model of prevailing reference in many working fields: the interaction and, above all, integration between several persons can be an instrument to empower the individual skills, allowing to reach different and higher levels of creativity and efficiency than the sum of the single members' capacities. However, the capacity of interaction, tolerance, and focusing on the problem is required to the members who also need training for this way of working. After a brief historical summary of some ''creative groups'' experiences in the fields of literature, science and arts, a vast review of theoretical model references is presented.

[Blood platelet oxygen consumption in pituitary dwarfs (author's transl)].

Oxygen consumption in blood platelets of 14 pituitary dwarfs aged from 2 to 8 years was investigated before and after a 2 months' treatment with growth hormone (GH). No significant difference was found between dwarfs and control subjects in respect of basal platelet oxygen uptake (4.0 +/- 3.

Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadotropic function in girls with premature thelarche.

Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadotropic activity was investigated in 9 girls with premature thelarche, and compared with that in 9 healthy girls and 6 girls with true precocious puberty. The gonadotropin stimulation test with luteinising hormone-releasing hormone was used. Girls with premature thelarche showed luteinising hormone response resembling that of normal girls, and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) response quite similar to that of girls with precocious puberty.