Hormones and Stem Cells
- 1st Edition, Volume 116 - March 19, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Gerald Litwack
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 5 5 0 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 5 5 1 - 8
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Former Editors
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter One: Pituitary stem cells
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Signaling pathways in pituitary development and stem cell regulation
- 3: Pituitary stem cell models
- Chapter Two: Wnt signaling and mammary stem cells
- Abstract
- 1: Expression of Wnt signaling components in mammary epithelial cells
- 2: Growth and development of mammary gland
- 3: How does Wnt signaling affect mammary growth and morphogenesis?
- 4: Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Three: Thyroid hormone signaling specifies cone photoreceptor subtypes during eye development: Insights from model organisms and human stem cell-derived retinal organoids
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction: The thyroid hormone signaling pathway
- 2: Thyroid hormone regulates cell fates during development
- 3: Cones are the color-detecting photoreceptors of the retina
- 4: Thyroid hormone specifies cone subtypes in mouse, chicken, and fish
- 5: Human retinal organoids are a model to study how thyroid hormone signaling specifies human cone subtypes
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter Four: Thyroid hormone and hypothalamic stem cells in seasonal functions
- Abstract
- 1: Daily and seasonal rhythms
- 2: Integrated mechanisms of photoperiodism
- 3: Tanycytes are a heterogeneous population of multi-tasking cells
- 4: Tanycytes as NSCs: Implication for long-term circannual rhythms?
- 5: Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Five: Thyroid hormone regulation of adult neural stem cell fate: A comparative analysis between rodents and primates
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Cellular processes underlying adult neurogenesis: Rodents vs. primates
- 3: How does thyroid hormone contribute to adult neurogenesis in rodents and primates throughout life?
- 4: How TH signaling and photoperiodism could interact to regulate adult neurogenesis
- 5: Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Six: Insights from single cell studies of human pancreatic islets and stem cell-derived islet cells to guide functional beta cell maturation in vitro
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Human pancreatic islet development and (dys)function
- 3: Modeling human pancreas development using human pluripotent stem cells
- 4: Insights into human pancreas biology from single cell transcriptomics studies of pancreatic islets
- 5: scRNA-Seq data from human beta cell differentiation inform gaps in functional maturation
- 6: Discussion
- Chapter Seven: Generation of high yield insulin-producing cells (IPCs) from various sources of stem cells
- Abstract
- 1: Generation of IPCs from iPSCs
- 2: Generation of IPCs from ESCs
- 3: Generation of IPCs from MSCs
- 4: Conclusion
- Chapter Eight: The development of adult intestinal stem cells: Insights from studies on thyroid hormone-dependent anuran metamorphosis
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: T3 and intestinal stem cell development
- 3: Gene regulation by TR and its roles during anuran metamorphosis
- 4: An essential role of TR in adult intestinal stem cell development
- 5: TR target genes in intestinal stem cell development
- 6: Conservations between Xenopus intestinal metamorphosis and mammalian intestinal maturation
- 7: Conclusion
- Acknowledgment
- Chapter Nine: Regulation of muscle stem cell function
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Muscle stem cells are a heterogeneous population
- 3: Muscle stem cells and lineage progression during adult myogenesis
- 4: Regeneration of skeletal muscle
- 5: Regulation of MuSCs by hormones and other circulating factors
- 6: Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Ten: Estrogen receptor beta and neural development
- Abstract
- 1: Sex hormone signaling during early neurodevelopment
- 2: The estrogen receptor beta (ERβ)
- 3: ERβ in neurodevelopment
- 4: Conclusion and perspectives
- Chapter Eleven: Nuclear receptors linking physiology and germline stem cells in Drosophila
- Abstract
- 1: Drosophila as a model for maternal physiological control of oogenesis
- 2: Nuclear receptors as molecular surveyors of physiology
- 3: Ecdysone signaling as a model for cell-cell communication via nuclear receptors
- 4: Drosophila oogenesis is fueled by stem cells
- 5: Multifaceted roles of NR signaling in oogenesis
- 6: Signaling from peripheral tissues promotes GSC maintenance
- 7: Conclusions and open questions
- Acknowledgments
- Funding
- Chapter Twelve: Steroid hormones and first trimester vascular remodeling
- Abstract
- Introduction
- 1: Vascular remodeling at the maternal-fetal interface
- 2: Sex steroids and maternal uterine vasculature
- 3: Spiral artery remodeling
- 4: Steroid hormones regulate vascular remodeling through lipid mediators
- 5: Conclusions
- Chapter Thirteen: Nuclear receptors and differentiation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells
- Abstract
- 1: Nuclear receptor biology
- 2: From neural precursor to mature oligodendrocyte: Riding the waves
- 3: Remyelination in adulthood: A developmental memory?
- 4: Ex vivo: Evidence from the dish
- 5: Conclusion
- Chapter Fourteen: Oxysterols and mesenchymal stem cell biology
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Mesenchymal stem cells
- 3: Oxysterols
- 4: Oxysterol and mesenchymal stem cells
- Acknowledgment
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 116
- Published: March 19, 2021
- No. of pages (Hardback): 454
- No. of pages (eBook): 454
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323855501
- eBook ISBN: 9780323855518
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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 StatesRead Hormones and Stem Cells on ScienceDirect