Executive Editor:

Khurshid Zaman
Bentham Science Publishers


Associate Editors:

R. Keith Campbell
Department of Pharmacotherapy
Washington State University
College of Pharmacy
Pullman, WA
USA


Paul de Vos
Pathology and Medical Biology
Section: Immunoendocrinology
University Medical Centre Groningen
Groningen
The Netherlands


Alfredo Ulloa-Aguirre
Research Unit in Reproductive Medicine
Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social
Mexico D.F
Mexico



Regional Editors:

Alessandro Antonelli
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Pisa
Pisa, Italy


Abdellah El Maghraoui
Rheumatology Department
Military Hospital Mohammed V
Rabat Medicine and Pharmacy University
Rabat, Morocco


Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk
Chair and Department of Endocrinology
Jagiellonian University, Medical College
Krakow, Poland


Ayumu Nakashima
Department of Advanced Nephrology
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Hiroshima University
Hiroshima, Japan


José A. Nogueira-Machado
Institute of Education and Research of Santa Casa Hospital
Santa Casa Hospital of Belo Horizonte
Minas Gerais, Brazil


Fernando Ovalle
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, USA


Florence Thibaut
Department of Psychiatry
Rouen University Hospital
Rouen, France

Editorial Advisory Board:

M.R. Abbaszadegan (Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Khorasan, Iran)
M. Abdollahi (Tehran Univ. of Med. Sci. Tehran, Iran)
M.A. Abdul-Ghani (University of Texas, Texas,TX, USA)
I. Abraham (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)
C.A. Aguilar-Salinas (University of Washington, St. Louis, MO, USA)
A. Albiston (Neuroscience Institute, Victoria, Australia)
L. Altucci (Università di Napoli, Napoli, Italy)
C. Alviggi (Università di Napoli, Napoli, Italy)
M.L. Andersen (University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
G. Andrikopoulos (Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece)
A.S. Arshad (Putra Medical Center, Kedah, Malaysia)
A. Ashraf (University of Alabama, Birmingham, UK)
A. Astrup (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark)
A. Atmaca (Ondokuz Mayis Univ. School of Med., Kurupelit Samsun, Turkey)
I.A. Bab (The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
A. Bhatt (Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA)
Z. Blumenfeld (Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel)
V. Borzì (Azienda Ospedaliera - Univ. “Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele”, Catania, Italy)
C.S. Calvar (Universitario de Vigo, Vigo, Spain)
F.F. Casanueva (Santiago de Compostela Univ., Santiago de Compostel, Spain)
C.Y. Cheng (Center for Biomedical Research, New York, NY, USA)
J.-T. Cheng (Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)
S.K. Chung (The University of Hong Kong, Pokulam, Hong Kong)
A. Cignarella (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
R. Corcoy (Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain)
A. Córdova (Campus Universitario, Soria, Spain)
A.M. Coto-Montes (Facultad de Medicina, Oviedo, Spain)
P. Dandona (University of Newyork, Buffalo, NY, USA)
A. Del Parigi (Pfizer Global Research and Development, New York, NY, USA)
S.T. Dheen (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
G. Di Cianni (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
A.J. Domb (The Hebrew Univ.of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
A.S. Dumont (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA)
B.C. Finnin (Monash Univ., Victoria, Australia)
V. Goffin (INSERM unit, Paris, France)
C.-X. Gong (New York State Inst. Basic Research, New York, NY, USA)
G. Gorodeski (University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA)
A. Huebler (University of Jena, Jena, Germany)
G. Iacobellis (St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, ON, Canada)
I. Iavicoli (Institute of Occupational Medicine, Roma, Italy)
H. Jabbour (Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH, UK)
A. Jovanovic (University of Dundee, Scotland, UK)
S. Kalra (Bharti Hospital, Karnal, India)
K. Kamoi (University of Niigata, Niigata, Japan)
E. Karnieli (Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel)
C. Kaur (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
J. Kost (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel)
A. Kowluru (Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA)
U. Kumar (Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Vancouver, BC, Canada)
R. Lafyatis (Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA)
A.K. Leung (University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada)
L.Y. Lim (University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia)
A.A. Mangoni (Flinders University and Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford, Australia)
P. Marchetti (University of Pisa,Pisa, Italy)
A. Matsuno (Teikyo University Chiba Medical Center, Chiba, Japan)
J. McAllister (Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA)
A. McKillop (University of Ulster, N. Ireland, UK)
B. Meczekalski (Poznan Univ. of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland)
K.M.J. Menon (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
A.R. Miller (Lilly Research Laboratories, Indianapolis, IN, USA)
A. Misra (Fortis Hospital, New Delhi, India)
F. Monzani (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
M. Mooney (Queen's University, Belfast, UK)
G.G. Mor (Yale Univ., New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
S.R. Pandi-Perumal (Somnogen Inc. Toronto, ON, Canada)
R. Paoletti (University of Milan, Milan, Italy)
V. Papadopoulos (McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada)
J.-O. Pers (Laboratory of Immunology, Brest, France)
M. Plebanski (The Austin Research Institute, Victoria, Australia)
D. Poirier (CHUL Research Center, Québec, Canada)
H.C. Porchet (Eclosion, Lausanne, Switzerland)
E.H. Rando (Center for Genetic Engg. and Biotech., Havana, Cuba)
J. Ren (University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA)
O.K. Ronnekleiv (Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA)
A. Rudich (Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel)
E.J. Sanchez-Barcelo (University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain)
G. Seghieri (University of Internal Medicine, Pistoia, Italy)
P.H.W. Sia (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
J. Singh (North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA)
J.S. Skyler (University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Florida, FL, USA)
A.M. Soares (Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)
A. Solini (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
M. Soory (King's College Dental Hospital, London, UK)
A.K. Srivastava (University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada)
N. Stefan (University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany)
C. Stefanutti (University La Sapienza of Rome, Rome, Italy)
D.H. St-Pierre (University of Turin, Torino, Italy)
C.A. Stratakis (Sec. Endocrinology & Genetics, NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
A. Sugawara (Tohoku Univ. Graduate School of Med., Miyagi, Japan)
E. Swiezewska (Polish Acad. of Sci., Warsaw, Poland)
I. Tamai (Tokyo University of Science, Chiba, Japan)
M. Tena-Sempere (University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain)
S. Tesfaye (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
V. Trajkovic (University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia)
M. Turgut (Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey)
K. Unluhizarci (Erciyes Univ. Medical School, Kayseri, Turkey)
A. Veves (Harvard Med. Sch., Boston, MA, USA)
J.-Y. Wang (National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan)
A. Wiercinska-Drapalo (Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland)
P.C.-H. Wu (National Cheng Kung Uni. Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan)
M.M. Xing (The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA)
A.A. Yamini (Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran)
P. Youinou (Brest Univ. Medical School, Brest, France)