**Meet the editor**

Dr Scott M. Kahn, Ph.D. is Director of Basic Urologic Research at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Institute for Health Sciences in New York City, and Member of the Herbert Irving Columbia Presbyterian Comprehensive Cancer Center, with an appointment in the Department of Urology. Additionally, Dr. Kahn serves as Biomarkers Council Chairman for the International Cancer Advo-

cacy Network. Since receiving his Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook in 1988, Dr. Kahn's research has covered a broad spectrum of cancer biology, including work on signal transduction, cell cycle control, cancer genetics, microsatellite instability, biomarker detection, and oncogene addiction. His more recent studies have focused on intracellular expression of the steroid binding protein, sex hormone-binding globulin in the prostate and breast, and its role in androgen and estrogen signaling.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Biology of Sex Steroids 1** 

**in the Vertebrates 3**  Nigel C. Noriega

Chapter 2 **Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin** 

Chapter 3 **Estrogens in the Control** 

Chapter 1 **Evolutionary Perspectives on Sex Steroids** 

**as a Modulator of the Prostate "Androgenome" 35**  Scott M. Kahn, Nicholas A. Romas and William Rosner

**of Growth Hormone Actions in Liver 47**  Leandro Fernández-Pérez and Amilcar Flores-Morales

**the Female Rat: Age Specific Effects of Estrogen** 

Annelieke N. Schepens-Franke and Bert J.M. Van de Heijning

**Express Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors 91** 

**Adrenal Medullary System and Hypothalamo-Pituitary** 

Anne I. Turner, Charlotte L. Keating and Alan J. Tilbrook

Chapter 4 **Somatostatin in the Periventricular Nucleus of** 

Chapter 5 **Telocytes in Human Fallopian Tube and Uterus** 

Anca Simionescu and Laurentiu M. Popescu

**Adrenal Axis Responses to Stress 115** 

Xiaohua Ju, Daniel Metzger and Marianna Jung

**Part 2 Sex Steroids, Memory and the Brain 137** 

Chapter 7 **Estrogen and Brain Protection 139** 

Chapter 6 **Sex Differences and the Role of Sex Steroids in Sympatho-**

Sanda M. Cretoiu, Dragos Cretoiu,

**and Onset of Reproductive Aging 71**  Eline M. Van der Beek, Harmke H. Van Vugt,
