**Meet the editor**

Professor Hassan Abduljabbar obtained his Medical degree from King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on June 1980. He then pursued his postgraduate training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. On Nov 1986 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Surgeons of Canada. He obtained his American board in OBGYN on

1988. Currently he is a Professor and the chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He also is the Medical Director of United Doctors Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 1998 till present. He is a member of American Fertility Socitey, American Socitey of Gynecological laparscopy and The Saudi Obstetrics and Gynecology Society. His main interests are infertility, Stem Cells, and physiological and biochemical changes in the human body during pregnancy. He has a number of publications in different journals in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Physiology of Steroid Hormones 1** 

**Regulating Hormone Steroids Secretion 3** 

**Endometrium and Mammary Gland 35**  Karin Tamm, Marina Suhorutshenko, Miia Rõõm, Jaak Simm and Madis Metsis

Chapter 3 **Evolving Trends in Estrogen Receptor Biology 65** 

**in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease 97**  Yoshio Sumida, Kyoko Sakai, Tomoyuki Ohno, Kazuyuki Kanemasa, Yutaka Inada, Naohisa Yoshida,

**Tolerance Clinical and Basic Study 109** 

**Type 3 Deficiency: Diagnosis, Phenotypic Variability and Molecular Findings 119**  Maria Felicia Faienza and Luciano Cavallo

**Part 2 Pathophysiology of Steroid Hormones 83** 

Chapter 4 **Cryptorchidism and Steroid Hormones 85** 

Roberto Domínguez, Angélica Flores and Sara E. Cruz-Morales

Marzena Kamieniczna, Anna Havrylyuk and Maciej Kurpisz

Kohichiroh Yasui, Yoshito Itoh, Yuji Naito, Toshikazu Yoshikawa

Chapter 1 **Hormonal and Neural Mechanisms** 

Chapter 2 **The Tissue Specific Role of Estrogen and Progesterone in Human** 

Raghava Varman Thampan

Chapter 5 **Dehydroepiandrosterone** 

Chapter 6 **DHEA and Impaired Glucose** 

Chapter 7 **17-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase** 

Hajime Ueshiba
