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Hormones and Stem Cells

  • 1st Edition, Volume 116 - March 19, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Gerald Litwack
  • Language: English

Vitamins and Hormones serial highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of author… Read more

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Description

Vitamins and Hormones serial highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Key features

  • Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
  • Presents the latest release in the Vitamins and Hormones series
  • Includes the latest information on Hormones and Synapse

Readership

Undergraduates, graduates, academics, and researchers in the field of vitamins and hormones

Table of contents

Preface
Gerald Litwack

1. Nuclear Receptor Signaling in Germline Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Germ Cell Differentiation
Elizabeth Ables

2. Wnt signaling and mammary stem cells
Caroline Alexander

3. Nuclear Receptors and Differentiation of Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells
Vito A. Baldassarro

4. Steroid Hormones and First Trimester Vascular Remodeling
Jimena S. Beltrame

5. Oxysterols and Mesenchymal Stem Cell Biology
Sergio P. Bydlowski

6. Thyroid hormone and hypothalamic stem cells in seasonal functions
Hugues Dardente

7. Generation of high yield insulin-producing cells (IPCs) from various sources of stem cells
Seyed Ehsan Enderami

8. Estrogen Receptor Beta and Neural Development
Jan Ake Gustafsson

9. Thyroid hormone signaling specifies cone photoreceptor subtypes during eye development: Insights from model organisms and human stem cell-derived retinal organoids
Robert J. Johnston

10. Pituitary Stem Cells
Shlomo Melmed

11. Thyroid hormone regulation of adult neural stem cell fate: a comparative analysis between rodents and primates
Sylvie Remaud

12. The development of adult intestinal stem cells: Insights from studies on thyroid hormone-dependent anuran metamorphosis
Yun-Bo Shi

13. Insights from single cell studies of human pancreatic islets and stem cell-derived islet cells to guide functional beta cell maturation in vitro
Adrian Kee Keong Teo

14. Regulation of muscle stem cell function
Julia von Maltzahn

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 116
  • Published: March 19, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Gerald Litwack

Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)

Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United States Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United States

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